I will most certainly start posting questions here, but first, I'd like to write something and then post code here if I get stuck. Desperate times may require me to ask for guidance from the scratch, but I will most certainly try to avoid that.

By the way, I've installed Perl on my laptop (windows 10) and started playing with it. Must say I like it so far...

Based on the answers given here and reviews, I've focused on two books - Learning Perl 7th Edition and Beginning Perl (Ovid Poe). While there is a latest version of Beginning Perl available, the one written by Ovid seems to have some really good reviews on Amazon. I am aware that it was released a few years ago, but judging the table of contents + reviews, I'm sure there will be a lot I can learn from both the books.