Clinton's book is pretty good, but if you're using the third edition it's showing its age. I wrote a book called Modern Perl which covers Perl 5.12. Electronic versions are free. It might be useful for you.
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Well, I also have all these other books from the library here, like the alpaca book Intermediate Perl and Wicked Cool Perl Scripts, but unless I finish up the 24 hour book they won't be of any use to me. I'll probably return them, because at the rate I'm going, it will take about a month rather then 24 hours, ahaha.
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That's cool, I started programming when I was 12 too. Now I've got grandchildren older than you and I'm still learning how to program! I mean, I'm already quite good, but it's not something you ever finish, you just stop one day, usually by dying :)
Since you're focused on accomplishing tasks and seem to have a basic grasp of Perl, I would recommend The Perl Cookbook because it's a collection of solutions to common tasks that come up over and over again.
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