When I was younger, asking for help with my homework, I'd ask and get the reply: "go look it up". I'm sure some of you are familiar with that. Now that I'm at a phase in life learning again, I actually want to look it up but I'm not sure where. Not including this site (which has helped me a great deal), I have done online tutorials (such as Roberts online tutorial and others), store bought books (tutorials like Perl Programmers' interactive by V.D.Lowe, and references such as Perl in a nutshell -O'reilly book) and searched other websites (perl.com, etc.). My code is getting better, but I still don't know enough. I'm amazed every time I scan through the halls of this site and read the code. Is there anyway/place to learn about modules and/or other complex situations and how to use them properly? So.. someone just point me in the right direction and I'll take it from there.. so I don't have to bother you all again with what might seem like simple coding questions. Thank you all. -ps- I used the perlmonk pickup line this past weekend.. it worked! I guess it's all about the presentation! :o)

In reply to ..Go look it up.. by Zo

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