As the previous posters have said, probably the two best books to get started with are the Llama, and the Camel (in that order).

Once you get going a bit, there are two others that I would thoroughly recommend:

  1. Perl Best Practices, by Damian Conway. This one will teach you all the good habits to get into whilst writing Perl code, so that your code becomes readable, robust and maintainable.
  2. The Perl Cookbook, by Christiansen & Torkington. Literally hundreds of "pre-cooked" recipes for solving some of the most common problems with Perl.

Oh, and you might be interested in the results of this fairly recent poll :)

Cheers,
Darren :)

In reply to Re: Perl intro book for .Net programmer by McDarren
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