Welcome to the monastery! To answer your question about the Wrox book you're learning from: I've looked through it a few times and wasn't especially impressed. You'll save yourself a lot of headaches if you invest in the Camel book instead, or if that seems a bit heavy going, try the Llama book first. The investment will repay itself many times over, and you'll have a lot more fun with Perl into the bargain ;-)
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And after the llama book, keep reading into the alpaca book, to learn how to write programs from 100 to 10,000 lines long!
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