in reply to How to get going with perl?
You need
As a project, chose something that you can actually use, something that makes your work or private computer usage easier.
Make a rough plan on how you will implement it (something very rough along the lines of "read these two files, extract some columns, do some processing, print out"), and then start reading perl resources (books, perlintro, http://learn.perl.org/) until you know enough to start with the first part.
If you get stuck, play around; if that doesn't help, come here and ask for help.
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