All of the following categories are Perl related, with the exception of the first one, which is PerlMonks related, and the last one.

New Tutorials  (Top)

Understanding and Using PerlMonks  (Top)

Here are some tutorials to help you get started with various aspects of using PerlMonks — affectionately known as the "Monastery".

(Also check out this related section in the Code Catacombs)

• PerlMonks for the Absolute Beginner by jdporter
• Welcome to the Monastery! Make yourself at home. by newrisedesigns
• How (Not) To Ask A Question by jeffa
• How to RTFM by Masem
• How to ask questions the smart way by yitzchak
• Why questions go unanswered by yitzchak

Getting Started with Perl  (Top)

Here are some accessible tutorials for those who are just starting out:

• Perl Babysteps 1: Your First Simple Script by webfiend
• Perl documentation documentation by brian_d_foy
• Searching Perl Documentation by blazar
• The basics
• Common Beginner Mistakes by chromatic
• Introductory Perl Tutorial Course for Windows by pedagogues
• Robert Pepper's Perl Tutorial by pedagogues
• Data Types and Variables
  • the basic datatypes, three
  • Data Type: Scalar
    • Scalars: How They Work (about numbers, text strings, and binary strings) by vroom
  • Data Type: Array
    • Arrays: A Tutorial/Reference by jdporter
    • Multidimensional Arrays by CharlesClarkson
  • Data Type: Hash
    • Not Exactly a Hash Tutorial by planetscape
    • Hash Keys (strings or numbers?) by robot_tourist
    • The Uniqueness of hashes. by injunjoel
  • True and False (aka Booleans)
    • True or False? A Quick Reference Guide by bobf
  • References
    • intro to references by busunsl
    • References quick reference by tye
    • Arrays and hashes only with references by grizzley
• Context in Perl
  • Context tutorial by kyle
• Operators
  • Operators: arithmetic and otherwise
  • The Scalar Range Operator by pbeckingham
  • Flipin good, or a total flop? by GrandFather
  • Precedence for Idiots by Melly
• Flow Control Structures
  • Control statements and looping
  • Implementing Dispatch Tables by Roy Johnson
• Special Variables, Options, and Pragmas
  • Why you should use strict by waxmop
  • Use strict and warnings by runrig
  • Perl White Magic - Special Variables and Command Line Switches by cog
  • Perl Special Variables Quick Reference by davido
  • Uncommon* but Useful Perl Command Line Options for One-liners by Sol-Invictus
  • Some things that will make your life easier as a Perl coder
• Perl Installation
  • Installing Perl on a Windows PC by giricredwolf
  • Install Perl Locally -- If this works for Catalyst, it'll work for anything! by tphyahoo
  • Install parallel Perl on Debian by ybiC
• Documenting Code
  • POD in 5 minutes by Juerd
  • The Dynamic Duo --or-- Holy Getopt::Long, Pod::UsageMan! by ybiC

Getting Deeper Into Perl  (Top)

• Variables and Scoping
  • Variable Scoping in Perl: the basics by arturo
  • Lexical vs. Package Variables (With a little local thrown in) by dsb
  • Lexical scoping like a fox by broquaint
  • Of Symbol Tables and Globs by broquaint
  • The difference between my and local by cLive ;-)
  • 'our' is not 'my' by Ovid
  • Coping with Scoping by pedagogues
  • Seven Useful Uses of <tt>local</tt> by pedagogues
• Files and Directories
  • Beginners guide to File::Find by spurperl
  • Directory Recursion by count0
  • File Locking by turnstep
  • Navigating and Reading Directories by Sherlock
  • Paths in Perl by tachyon
  • Using Temporary Files in Perl by rob_au
• List Processing, Filtering, and Sorting
  • Complex sorting by vroom
  • Map: The Basics by jeffa
  • Resorting to Sorting by japhy
  • Getting Matching Items From An Array by Limbic~Region
  • Understanding transformation sorts (ST, GRT), the details by 5mi11er
  • A brief tutorial on Perl's native sorting facilities. by BrowserUk
• Perl Idioms Explained
  • Perl Idioms Explained - $|++ by broquaint
  • Perl Idioms Explained - keys %{{map{$_=>1}@list}} by broquaint
  • Perl Idioms Explained - ${\$obj->method} and @{[sort @list]} by broquaint
  • Perl Idioms Explained - my $string = do { local $/; <FILEHANDLE> }; by jeffa
  • Perl Idioms Explained - @ary = $str =~ m/(stuff)/g by tachyon
  • Perl Idioms Explained - && and || "Short Circuit" operators by davido
  • Perl Idioms Explained - !!expr by broquaint
  • Perl Idioms Explained - my ($foo, $bar) = @{shift(@_)}{qw/ -foo -bar /} by Roger
  • Perl Idioms Explained - my $count = () = /.../g by japhy

Strings  (Top)

• quotes in Perl by apotheon
• Understanding Split and Join by davido
• chop() and chomp() by Parham
• Using (s)printf() by reptile
• Pack/Unpack Tutorial (aka How the System Stores Data) by pfaut
• How to reverse a (Unicode) string by moritz

Subroutines  (Top)

• (Subroutine) Arguments explained (sort of.) by Andrew_Levenson
• Closure on Closures by broquaint
• Recursion: The Towers of Hanoi problem by DigitalKitty
• How A Function Becomes Higher Order by Limbic~Region
• How To: Make An Iterator by Limbic~Region
• Creating Nested Functions by ikegami
• Far More than Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know about Prototypes in Perl -- by Tom Christiansen by liverpole

Input and Output  (Top)

• Basic Input and Output
• File Input and Output
• Parsing your script's command line by grinder
• read() by Parham
• Suffering from Buffering by pedagogues

Modules: How to Create, Install, and Use  (Top)

• Installing Modules
  • A Guide to Installing Modules by tachyon
  • A guide to installing modules for Win32 by holli
  • A guide to installing modules for Win32 (2022 Edition) by pryrt
  • Compiling C/C++ based Modules under ActiveState using MinGW by syphilis
  • Installing Modules on a Web Server by sulfericacid
  • Installing CPAN on a Windows system by GrandFather
  • Installing perl modules via webmin by silent11
  • Embedded Perl: Installing Perl and Mojolicious on Arduino Yún / OpenWRT ChaosCalmer by ait
  • Installing DBD::Oracle on Mac (El Capitaine) by Sandy
• Using Modules
  • Including files by Juerd
  • Use modules with an import list on the command line by Ovid
  • Everything you wanted to know about Module Version Numbers and Checking by John M. Dlugosz
  • A Practical Guide to Compiling C based Modules under ActiveState using Microsoft C++ by tachyon
  • Module::Compile (or: what's this PMC thingy?) by Juerd
• Creating and Distributing Modules
  • Simple Module Tutorial by tachyon
  • How to make a CPAN Module Distribution by tachyon
  • José's Guide for creating Perl modules by cog
  • HowTo build and distribute a PPMed module for Win32 by idnopheq

Web Programming  (Top)

Related Code

See also: merlyn's WebTechniques Perl columns.

• Working with HTML
  • HTML::CalendarMonthSimple cookbook recipe by boo_radley
  • HTML::TokeParser Tutorial by crazyinsomniac
  • Change URIs in Text to HTML-Links by strat
  • Highly Orthogonal Web Application Development with HTML_Tree by princepawn
  • HTML::Tree(Builder) in 6 minutes by trs80
• Framework, Templating, and Content Management Systems
  • HTML::Template Tutorial by jeffa
  • Using HTML::Template by Ovid
  • Choosing a Templating System by perrin
  • Template with optional PHP execution by Flame
  • Catalyst Models Definitive Guide by ait
  • Catalyst: Using Chained for URL Dispatching and Sane Method Organization by stonecolddevin
  • Javascript Frameworks and Perl
    • Using Perl, jQuery, and JSON for Web development by bradcathey
• CGI Programming
  • Setting up Perl/CGI with Windows by Ovid
  • CGI Help Guide by tachyon
  • Troubleshooting Perl CGI scripts by brian_d_foy
  • Easier Linux/Unix remote CGI Debugging by Hero Zzyzzx
  • CGI Programming 101 by pedagogues
  • Security in CGI Programming by pedagogues
  • A Tutorial for CGI::Application by bradcathey
  • Ovid's CGI Course by pedagogues
• Web Client Programming
  • Getting more out of LWP::Simple by Dog and Pony
  • Web Client Programming with Perl by pedagogues
  • Using WWW::Selenium To Test Or Automate An Ajax Website by Limbic~Region
  • WWW::Mechanize Basics by PerlSufi

Win32  (Top)

• A guide to installing modules for Win32 by holli
• A Practical Guide to Compiling C based Modules under ActiveState using Microsoft C++ by tachyon
• Calling .NET Assemblies with Win32::OLE by InfiniteSilence
• Creating COM and DCOM objects with Perl by JamesNC
• HowTo build and distribute a PPMed module for Win32 by idnopheq
• Installing Perl on a Windows PC by giricredwolf
• Schedule Win32 Perl Scripts with AT by ybiC
• Shipping standalone perl apps on Win32 by crenz
• Using Win32::OLE and Excel - Tips and Tricks by cacharbe
• Win32 Execution: UNiX Style (NT) by emcb
• (Not Quite Perl) Running Scripts from Right-Click Context Menu in Windows by svsingh
• How to install Win32::OLE under Linux? by dpavlin
• Microsoft Project and Perl by dws

XML Technologies  (Top)

• XML::Parser Tutorial by OeufMayo
• Does your XML::Simple code pass the strict test? by grantm
• Stepping up from XML::Simple to XML::LibXML by grantm
• Adding elements using XML::Simple by grantm
• Adjacency List Processing in XML::Twig by princepawn
• Using Perl XPath for converting Infopath XML files to Word Documents by karthik4perl
• XML::Generator::DBI Tutorial by jeffa
• XML for Perl developers by IBM DeveloperWorks by pedagogues
• Two XML Processing tutorials by mirod by pedagogues

Pattern Matching, Regular Expressions, and Parsing  (Top)

• Character Class Abbreviations
• Common Regex Gotchas by chromatic
• Don't Use Regular Expressions To Parse IP Addresses! by ybiC
• Extended Patterns of Regular Expressions by OM_Zen
• How will my regular expression match? by hv
• Parsing with Regexes and Beyond by moritz
• Quantifiers in regular expressions
• Regexp do's and don'ts by muba
• Regular Expressions Tutorial, the Basics (for BEGINNERS) by brusimm
• A regex tutorial by Carl Franklin and Gary Wisniewski by pedagogues
• String matching and Regular Expressions
• Using Look-ahead and Look-behind by Roy Johnson

Database Programming  (Top)

• Accessing Microsoft SQL Server from Linux using DBD::Sybase by CleverFox
• Class::DBI Intro by trs80
• DBI recipes by gmax
• The fine art of database programming by gmax
• Handling huge BLOB fields with DBI and MySQL by gmax
• Reading from a database by stephen
• Speeding up the DBI by gmax
• Tricks with DBI by btrott
• Web Logs Using DBI by btrott
• Databases made easy by GrandFather

Object Oriented Programming  (Top)

• Perl Object Oriented Meta-Tutorial by btrott
• Tutorial: Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming by jreades
• A simple example OO script for total beginners by bl0rf
• Blessables -- What Can You Make Into Objects? by chromatic
• Often Overlooked OO Programming Guidelines by Ovid
• Using can With Inheritance by btrott
• Object Oriented configuration values by trs80
• Object Serialization Basics by chromatic
• Objects with Private Variables by btrott
• Perl Singletons by sheridan3003
• The tie()s That Bind by KM
• Tie: Creating Special Objects by btrott
• Undoable Objects by chromatic
• It's a dog, but what kind? (polymorphism , in Perl OO) by blue_cowdawg
• Basic Objects with Overloaded Operators by perlmonkey
• Overloading '=' by dchetlin
• Perl Design Patterns: About Objects by pedagogues
• perldoc perlobj: Objects by pedagogues
• perldoc perlootut: Object-Oriented Programming in Perl Tutorial by pedagogues

User Interfaces  (Top)

• Using GD output for HTML imagemaps -- GD::Graph::Map recipe by boo_radley
• Tips and Pointers using ncurses with perl by odie
• Flash graphics with perl: installing ming by Sol-Invictus
• Beginning Perl/Tk by perl.j
• Tk Tutorial, Featuring Your Very Own "Perl Sig/OBFU Decoder Ring" by hiseldl
• Gtk Tutorials
  • Glade/Gtk review/tutorial by jepri
  • Drawing with Perl/Gtk2 by zentara
  • Gtk-Perl Tutorial by pedagogues
  • Gtk2-Perl Study Guide by pedagogues
• wxPerl Tutorials
  • wxPerl Tutorial one :: The basics by boo_radley
  • wxPerl image handling (short & sweet). by boo_radley
  • wxPerl tutorial 3 -- by boo_radley
  • Wx ControlTutorial : Wx::ProgressDialog by boo_radley

Testing and QA Tutorials  (Top)

• Automated software testing: emulation of interfaces using Test::MockObject by IlyaM
• Mocking accessors with Test::MockObject by ait
• Tools that may improve the overall quality of a module by SBECK
• Basic Testing Tutorial by hippo

Debugging and Optimization  (Top)

• Benchmarking Your Code by turnstep
• Profiling your code. by kyle
• Debugging Perl scripts which use fork() by IlyaM
• Common Causes for "Modification of a read-only value attempted" by imp
• Basic debugging checklist by toolic
• Using Test-Point Callbacks for Automated Diagnostics in Testing by ait

Threads, Multi-Processing, and Inter-Process Communication  (Top)

• Working with other processes and programs by vroom
• Things you need to know before programming Perl ithreads by liz
• Debugging Perl scripts which use fork() by IlyaM
• Using select and IO::Select by duff
• Threads: why locking is required when using shared variables by ikegami
• Perl's Warn and Die Signals by Adam
• Introduction to Parallel::ForkManager by biosysadmin
• An introduction to POE by RMGir
• Reading from more than one socket at once by ahunter

Network Programming  (Top)

• Managing your IP space with Perl by fokat
• A Simple Socket Server Using 'inetd' by samizdat
• MP3 server with IO::Socket by perlmonkey
• Using the SNMP module from the Net-SNMP library by Rhys
• Beginners guide to Net::FTP by spurperl
• Perl and Net::Pcap by rob_au
• Using Net::LDAP to access and update LDAP directories by araqnid

Miscellaneous Modules  (Top)

• Getting started with DateTime by monsterzero
• Getting Started with GnuPG and GPG by derby
• Getting Started with Inline::C by derby
• Lingua::Romana::Perligata - Basica Basicum Basicus by benn
• A Beginner's Guide to Using Mail::Audit and Mail::SpamAssassin by shockme
• Introduction to Tree::DAG_Node by gmax
• The Perl Data Language (PDL): A Quick Reference Guide by lin0
• Text::Table Tutorial by biohisham
• Parse::RecDescent
  • Operator Associativity and Eliminating Left-Recursion in Parse::RecDescent by ikegami
  • Random Tips on Parse::RecDescent by hsmyers
  • Some Parse::RecDescent Tutorials by idnopheq
• How do I send email through GMail? by stevieb

Miscellaneous Perl Tutorials  (Top)

• Perl and Bioinformatics by biohisham
• Character Encodings in Perl - offsite tutorial by moritz by pedagogues
• perlunitut: Unicode in Perl by Juerd
• Writing highly obfuscated code in Perl by marko
• PerlGuts Illustrated by pedagogues

Non-English Tutorials  (Top)

• (lang: de) Referenzen by busunsl
• (lang: lt) CGI/Perl Script Security by mr2
• (lang: nl) Objecten voor beginners by Juerd
• Criando uma conta no PerlMonks (now sitefaqlet) by monsieur_champs
• Eu preciso de ajuda! Quem pode me ajudar? (now sitefaqlet) by monsieur_champs
• Antes que vocę escreva... by monsieur_champs
• Benvindo ao Mosteiro! Sinta-se em Casa (PT_BR) by monsieur_champs
• Spanish translation of pack/unpack tutorial by Hue-Bond
• POD en 5 minutos by Hue-Bond
• Ámbito de variables en Perl: lo básico by Hue-Bond

Other Topics  (Top)

• Big-O Notation - What is it good for? by Limbic~Region
• An informal introduction to O(N) notation by dws
• A Beginning Guide To Evolutionary Algorithms by blokhead
• LZW Demystified by demerphq
• Learn vi/vim in 50 lines and 15 minutes by tachyon
• Using CVS for revision control by trs80
• Introduction to Technical Writing/Documentation by ailie
• Exploring Programming Language Architecture in Perl by pedagogues
• Database design with UML and SQL by pedagogues