... going a bit further along the lines of a tool.... Maybe a dedicated site for Perl examples, ordered in the same way CPAN search (R.K.'s search). Maybe I wierd (ok, probably), but I learn more by reading simple code examples, then expanding on them using the docs, than I do from the docs by themselves. That is not to say that the docs are bad,(or that they are not bad) just that they do not always help me get up to speed as quickly as I would like to.

I see real value in this idea, regardless of implementation.

Good Idea zby!