Perl

[Krishna Prasad]

I would like to start learning more about perl. I know there are all kinds of books to purchase. However, I was wondering if there are any free publications on perl.

Thanks,

Ron

[Robert Gamble]

I know this doesn't answer your question, but here is a page that contains very useful links to obtain perl books.

http://learn.perl.org/

[Heiner E. Lennackers]

Hi,

Just a quick link: http://perldoc.com/

And at least in linux the manpages are nearly the complete "programming in perl" book.

Heiner

[Clemens van Everdingen]

Hi,

See:

http://cmve.dtdns.net/or/Perl_bookshelf/index.htm

C.

[Patrick Wallek]

I'd start with http://www.perl.org/ and go from there.

There are also some FREE online classes on PERL at http://www.cgi101.com/class/

These are mostly classes about CGI programming for web stuff, but you can still learn from it. There are also online classes at http://link.mindleaders.com/e-learn/catalog/tweb.asp?associd=MONSTE001&SD=&groups=11607

I would also take a look at O'Reilly's Perl books:

Learning Perl, 3rd edition: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lperl3/

Perl for System Administration: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlsysadm/

They've also got 3 or 4 others on Perl as well.

I'm in the same boat as you and I bought the above 2 books. I'm planning on trying to delve into them starting in the next couple of weeks.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Hi Ron:

You can download quite a bit of free documentaion from http://www.perl.org/CPAN and from http://www.activeperl.com; however, you are going to be miles ahead of the game if you take the plunge and purchase at least a few of the O'Reilly Books. At a minimum I would get 'Learning Perl', 'Programming Perl', and 'Perl Cookbook'. 'Advanced Perl Programming' would be next on my list. One of the things that makes Perl difficult to learn is that there are so many functions compared to most scripting languages. I also suggest that you avoid the mistake of trying to cram as much as possible into one line of Perl. There is nothing like coming back 6 months later and trying to figure out what in the world this code is doing. If you know already know a bit C that helps somewhat because Perl syntax loosely follows C conventions. It also helps to become very familiar with regular expression before you tackle Perl.

[Mark Landin]

A website I heartily recommend is www.perlmonks.org, an online Perl community with a quirky theme :) It was invaluable when I started learning Perl last year. Perl author Larry Wall even hangs out there from time to time, and Randall Schwartz, who wrote one or two of the recommended O'Reilly Perl books is a regular contributor.

[harry d brown jr]

Ron,

perlcircus is useful also, but make sure you get the O'reilly book.

http://perlcircus.com/site/index.html

live free or die
harry

[micmath]

Note that the URL for Perl Circus should be http://www.perlcircus.org/