Try digging through old nodes posted here. There will be huge piles of stuff that are miles away from where you are at present, but there are a lot of fairly entry level questions too. Even where it's not clear what the question is, you will find lots of useful stuff in replies.

Have a look through the Tutorials section.

And as a reality check run the following:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

for my $count (1..5) {
    print "Hello world $count.\n";
}
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The importance of a very simple hello world program is to make sure you have everything installed and running correctly. I've dressed this up slightly to make it more interesting and give a little head start into doing something real.

If you can afford to buy books then Learning Perl is the traditional highly recommended choice.

Ovid's Begining Perl is also likely to be of interest and is freely available. I've not read it, but I've heard good reports of it.