In addition to davido's excellent advice, you should also take a look in the Tutorials section here and scan the Seekers of Perl Wisdom questions and answers for things that peak your interest.
You have already asked in the CB about things you should know and do to use the site effectively so you may be interested in I know what I mean. Why don't you? for some posting tricks that will help you and us understand each other. Oh, and a general tip for Perl: always use strictures (use strict; use warnings; - see The strictures, according to Seuss).
True laziness is hard work
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Are you posting in the right place? Check out Where do I post X? to know for sure.
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Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:
<code> <a> <b> <big>
<blockquote> <br /> <dd>
<dl> <dt> <em> <font>
<h1> <h2> <h3> <h4>
<h5> <h6> <hr /> <i>
<li> <nbsp> <ol> <p>
<small> <strike> <strong>
<sub> <sup> <table>
<td> <th> <tr> <tt>
<u> <ul>
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Snippets of code should be wrapped in
<code> tags not
<pre> tags. In fact, <pre>
tags should generally be avoided. If they must
be used, extreme care should be
taken to ensure that their contents do not
have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent
horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor
intervention).
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Want more info? How to link
or How to display code and escape characters
are good places to start.
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