in reply to Perl Assignments Needed

Take a look at Perl Cookbook, from O'Reilly. It's full of interesting case studies - most all recipes are relevant to real world problems, and most offer several possible solutions, of varying complexity.

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Re^2: Perl Assignments Needed
by technojosh (Priest) on Sep 20, 2007 at 16:17 UTC
    I will echo the Perl Cookbook suggestion.

    That book along with an experienced mentor was more than enough to get me started on my way to years of ego-building, um, er, perl programming.