Please don't share links to copyrighted material distributed without the copyright holder's permission. If you really can't afford a Perl book and find the copious documentation distributed freely with Perl and available in many places on the Internet insufficient, contact me privately and I'll send you a book or two for free.

If you share my book with a friend or two, or make a copy of a page (or the whole thing) for yourself, that's fine. I'm cool with that. Please don't republish it though. That's really pushing fair use, and it's not fair to everyone who worked on the book.

Thanks.

"Please report those when you find them to <infringement@oreilly.com>.

Otherwise, O'Reilly doesn't make their money, and I don't make my
money, and I don't get to write more books."

Wow, sorry about that! It was one of the top links that appeared on google when I searched about the "can_read" method! The page had graphics similar in style, or maybe that even were from, the O'Reilly site, I didn't think for a second that the material was stolen!

I had no mallicious intent when posting that link, just trying to help someone out who hadn't come across "can_read" before.

I am a great supporter of books and find them far easier to learn from than the majority of the content on the web (although there are some very good Perl tutorial sites). I especially support the O'Reilly series of books of which I have the Camel, and DBI Cheetah books.

Appologies to chromatic for the misuse.

I will be more careful in future

M

Don't worry about it too much... I got bitten by the same thing on my 6th post to perlmonks.

-Blake

-derby