Howdy Aspec, here's some links that might be useful for getting started with Perl:

Introductions, first steps and general information:

• The perlintro manpage
• learn.perl.org
• perldoc.perl.org
• Five Common Misconceptions While Learning Perl
• Resources to get help in Perl

Tutorials:

• Perldoc tutorial index
• Tutorials on PerlMonks
• Perl Tutorial Hub

FAQs:

• The perlfaq manpage

  • perlfaq1 - General Questions about Perl
  • perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl
  • perlfaq3 - Programming Tools
  • perlfaq4 - Data Manipulation
  • perlfaq5 - Files and Formats
  • perlfaq6 - Regular Expressions
  • perlfaq7 - General Perl Language Issues
  • perlfaq8 - System Interaction
  • perlfaq9 - Web, Email and Networking

• Just the FAQs (from The Perl Journal, by Dominus)

Books:

• Learning Perl, aka "The Llama" (June 2011)
• Beginning Perl (by Ovid; August 2012)
• Intermediate Perl, aka "The Alpaca" (July 2012)
• Mastering Perl (January 2014)
• Programming Perl, aka "The Camel"; a must-have (February 2012)
• Modern Perl (April 2014; PDF here)
• Advanced Perl Programming (June 2005)
• Perl Best Practices (July 2005)
• Effective Perl Programming, aka "The Shiny Ball" (April 2010)
• Perl Cookbook, aka "The Big-Horn Sheep" (August 2003)
• Perl Hacks (May 2006)
• Perls of Wisdom (December 2004)
• Introducing Regular Expressions (July 2012)
• Mastering Regular Expressions (August 2006)
• Mastering Algorithms with Perl, aka "The Timber Wolf" (August 1999)
• Higher-Order Perl (March 2005; PDF here)
• Perl Testing (July 2006)
• Perl Medic (March 2004)

If you have more questions, by all means feel free to ask them here on Perlmonks, too. The Monastery welcomes everyone who seeks enlightenment.

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