And FWIW, I am in complete agreement with greywolf on this. I own both Programming Perl (3rd Edition) and Sams Teach Yourself Perl 5 in 21 Days. I found the Sams book to be very useful for learning the basics of the language, but when I started dealing with the more advanced features, I usually turned to the Camel book. Also, I agree with footpad that another book you might be interested in, is Learning Perl which has been re-written.

TStanley
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