If anyone has a suggestion of where to go to get/read more elementary stuff on the scary modules (Programming Perl is too scant--more on how to create them), and which ones do what and simple tutorials on how to use them, we module neophytes would stop posting questions about parsing HTML.

Well, I have over 150 suggestions for you. Use the search box at the bottom of any page there to narrow it down a bit to a particular topic area.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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