Three years ago, I would have agreed with you and I certainly have a few copies of both books lying around, but they are primarily for those quiet moments in the men's room. Nowadays, at the desk, I use perldoc exclusively when I want to look for something and C:/Perl/html/ when I want to browse through pages of docs. Paper is just no substitute, I'm afraid.

BTW, both are available in digital form, for example here,which is far more useful as you can copy and paste the examples into your program when coding. He he. Instant expert.

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Helgi Briem
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In reply to Re: Re: Perl Man Pages by helgi
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