in reply to How Many Perl Books Do You Own?

I've bought a few Perl books besides these, but these are the ones that really helped:

  1. Learning Perl -- great intro, best way to start
  2. Programming Perl -- learn the more advanced concepts.
  3. Effective Perl Programming -- stop coding in PERL, and give Perl a try.
  4. Perl Cookbook -- great reference for many common problems.
  5. Programming the Perl DBI -- if you're using a database.
  6. Ojbect Oriented Perl -- great way to learn about OO in Perl.
  7. Perl 5 Pocket Reference -- when you can't remember, look it up.

There are a lot more I want, but have to wait in my large wanted-books queue:

  1. Mastering Algorithms with Perl
  2. Data Munging with Perl
  3. Mastering Regular Expressions
  4. Perl for System Administration -- borrowed it
  5. Advanced Perl Programming
  6. Mastering Perl/Tk
  7. CGI Programmming with Perl -- borrowed it
  8. Network Programming In Perl -- borrowed it