I always found the documentation to be useful. When I first started learning perl, the man pages were the first place I looked, and I felt it did an excellent job, but that is my personal opinion (everything I do is a big jumble anyway ;).

I was always able to find what I need through perltoc and pressing "/" and putting in a nice search term and it always returns what I am looking for. I have found if you can not find the answers right away, just grep for them :).

I am pleased to find the perldoc website, I did not know it existed. I was pleased by its format, and after a few seconds of looking around I was able to find what I need (although that might be because I am used to the man pages :). I think all of the others will agree that this is a project that is worth all of our effort to try to make more comprehensive to newcomers of perl.

In reply to Re: Reorganizing or fixing Perl's documentation? by CloneArmyCommander
in thread Reorganizing or fixing Perl's documentation? by BUU

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