Perl books?

[NickD]

Anyone got a recommendation for a good book to help learn Perl?

Nick

[NormanRouxel]

O'Reilly Learning Perl, Fifth Edition is a good one.

However unless you really need to write a lot of Perl from scratch it may be better looking for some on-line tutorials.

I've got O'Reilly's Perl in a Nutshell but can't remember when I last opened it. I just look on-line or at the code I'm tinkering with for guidance.

There's hardly a day passes without me looking at one of the Actinic Perl scripts (ActinicOrder.pm is my favourite) and there are bits of code there that hurt my brain. Cue a quick google to try and work out what it does.

[Duncan Rounding]

For a perl dabbler such as myself I stick to online tutorials with working examples of function and syntax. I have a couple of books but frankly I've hardly opened them - the same is true for javascript.