I just got 2nd edition in direct from O'Reilly last week - it's a winner.

Some of it was, for me anyway, review of material already in my library (Learning Perl, Perl Cookbook, Perl in a Nutshell), but there's enough additional material to make it well worth the money. Plus, it's nice to have it all in under one cover.

I'll leave a PM review to someone more technically qualified than I.