what was wrong with diotalevi's suggestion that you point them to perlreftut on perldoc.com?

I never said anything was *wrong* with the suggestion.

I agree that the perl documentation is a maze and that pointing them at the right one can be helpful, however, some personalized help and a pointer to the right TFM to R is almost always more helpful and it leaves a better impression

The pointer without the personalized help works well. Feel free to ask our visitors what they think of #perlhelp. They tell us they like how we tell them to RTFM in a friendly way.

Juerd # { site => 'juerd.nl', plp_site => 'plp.juerd.nl', do_not_use => 'spamtrap' }