Yeah, hard to search for something like $", most things won't parse that properly. Thanks for the advice and recommendations. I have Learning Perl and Intermediate Perl. I was looking at Programming Perl, though it seemed more reference-like than the others, and so I presumed it would be more useful after I got to know things a bit better. I'll go pick it up tomorrow, I think the copy I ordered of mastering perl should be there too (it'll be a bit before I get to that one, but, still, nice to have). Thanks everyone.