New 2 Perl Programming - Anybody have any good reference or data structure exercises I could work on?

Mike_Hamilton_Perl has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, I'm new to the world of Perl, and I am looking for hands-on exercises to improve my use of references, de-referencing, and data structures. Does anyone have any thing to offer to get me started? I have the Perl Cookbook, and several other O-Reilly books; I'm just not finding many actual exercises for application of the code samples. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Mike

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Re: New 2 Perl Programming - Anybody have any good reference or data structure exercises I could work on? by madbombX (Hermit) on Mar 16, 2007 at 21:43 UTC
The book you want for this is Intermediate Perl by Randal L. Schwartz. There are not only great explanations, but also exercises of the type you are looking for. Well worth the investment.	[reply]
Re: New 2 Perl Programming - Anybody have any good reference or data structure exercises I could work on? by GrandFather (Saint) on Mar 16, 2007 at 21:49 UTC
Assuming you have read the standard Perl documentation on such things (perllol) SoPW is a really good resource for test exercises. Simple Super Searchs for HoH, HoA, HoHoH, ..., get you a stack of nodes like Converting a HoH to an AoA, Comparing HoH and HoHoH and Hashes of hashes to cut your teeth on. Classic test exercises with answers at the back of the book stuff :-D. DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel	[reply]
Re: New 2 Perl Programming - Anybody have any good reference or data structure exercises I could work on? by planetscape (Chancellor) on Mar 17, 2007 at 02:14 UTC
Please see Re: Real Life Perl Exercises. HTH, planetscape	[reply]
Re: New 2 Perl Programming - Anybody have any good reference or data structure exercises I could work on? by jettero (Monsignor) on Mar 16, 2007 at 20:57 UTC
perlmonks, perlreftut, Data::Dumper; personally, I really liked the programming perl book. I called it the bible for a long time. That was back in the 2nd edition epoch I think. If you're like me, you'll get a lot out of `perl -MData::Dumper -e 'print "", Dumper([ {lol=>7}, qw(oh, I get it) ]), "\n"'`... -Paul	[reply] [d/l]