If I were you I would purchase a copy of Learning Perl (O'Reilly), and work your way through it. Make sure to get a current edition. Consider it an opportunity to exercise your mind, and to look at problems a new way. If you end up loving it, you should pursue it further. If you don't care for it too much, stop there and learn something else instead. Once you find the tools you love most, to the point that you can work with them (or study them) all day and still want more, assuming your aptitude is in line as well, you will find a use and find yourself useful to someone.
First get a proper keyboard though (or refrain from posting using your Blackberry -- that never worked out too well for me either.) Perl is forgiving, but it's not as forgiving as human readers of natural language.
Learn Perl. At very least it will broaden your mind, and that's really the only thing you can take with you anyway.
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Hi Dave,
Thanks for your comment.
I have installed the Active Perl , and trying to work on Windows OS.
I have read that , we could do the web based programming using Perl and also validations for database values, or System Administration.
Can we use Perl , to validate UI Based checks?
Regards,
Reena
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Can we use Perl , to validate UI Based checks?
Yes you can and you probably should (even when checks exist on the client-side, e.g. Javascript).
Take a look at the sections referring to queries and query objects in the CGI module documentation to see the types of operations available. There are many Perl modules for web-based programming: as I'm not particularly current in this area, I'll leave others to describe the latest and greatest.
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I mean this in the most constructive way.
Learning spelling, grammar and proof-reading would benefit you far more than learning Perl would. Your post was painful to read. You are leaving a permanent record of your communication abilities, you should be careful to make sure that it shows you in a positive light.
-pete
"Worry is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere."
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my short answer to your heading is: no
don't waste your and our time if you do it only to enhance your career opportunities
If you want to learn perl, go for it! You are at the right place! You could write small scripts to have some practical experience, even with GUI. If you want to check perl CGI I would recommend XAMPP as environment.
do what you love, love what you do
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