Perl resources.

Here are my recommendations for getting started with Perl. There is more material available on the WEB about Perl than you can imagine!

Book

Programming Perl. This was the first book on Perl that I purchased. After reading it for half an hour I was able to program a task in Perl in 5 minutes that I had spent an entire day failing to do with sed. That's my definition of a "productivity tool". Here's a link to the new edition Programming Perl, 2nd Edition.

Magazines

The Perl Journal. You should subscribe to this magazine. It's full of really useful code examples to get you moving on a project.

On line resources

Perl Language Page. There are so many links to Perl resources, but the Perl Language Page is where I usually start.

Perl for WIN32

Win32 Get this and you can play at home too! But you have to be a bit careful because not all of the Perl functionality is available with the WIN32 port.

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