I am just looking for some description of functionalities of the recommended programs and it seems that all the recommendations are big improvements over my current technique (syntax highliting editor + bat files (*.pl and pause) to run the script in cmd.
Thanks for help.

In fact I am aware of the book (Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics) and I can even recommend it. It is almost 5 years since I had to do some DNA/protein sequence manipulation and when looking whether there was a way how to automate I stumbled against the book (online,link dead now). It demonstrated perl syntax/structures/techniques on the problems of my interest as examples, so I just had to get oriented a little (the book is really clearly written), slightly modify and put together relevant chunks of the code (a matter of one week time). But since I forget everything and only notion remained that perl is good for string manipulation (which is of interest for me again now). The book had one drawback thought - there was to much molecular biology explained for a molecular biologist`s taste, so I will go for Learning Perl and Getting Started with Perl recommended by trialmonkey.
thanks
karpatov

In reply to Re^2: Free Perl IDE for a begginer by Anonymous Monk
in thread Free Perl IDE for a begginer by karpatov

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