I have some advice to help new member to perlmonks. If you are new to Perl you can find help and a tutorial/manual in perl by typing "man perl" I am not sure if this works in all perl systems but I know it does in the older versions. The newer versions come with a help doc in the folder you install them in. If you are having trouble finding your way around perlmonks.com there is always a search engine, but if you can't find what your looking for and the search engine doesn't help the best way to find something is to ask in the chatterbox! The chatterbox is made for questions. I promise there is always at least one monk in the chatterbox at all time that knows what he is talking about. Also if you can't find something that you know is a feature of perlmonksthe MOST likely reason that it is not there is because it is turned off in your user settings. Just click on your name link at the top of the screen then go to user settings, find what your looking for and enable it. -Noobie

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