Hi Andrew,

You could gain a lot of knowledge about these sort of issues by picking up a book such as Learning Perl (The "Llama book", and umm, no, I'm not part of any vast O'Reilly conspiracy). I know you're in high school and probably on a limited budget, but you should consider it if possible. It's a quick book to go through; you might be able to get it from your local library.

You can also go through documentation for this (which is what I'm sure some will suggest), but the documentation isn't really designed for teaching. Some can learn from it, but I found books better for an initial grounding.

In reply to Re: Syntax discrepancy? by SamCG
in thread Syntax discrepancy? by Andrew_Levenson

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