Need to learn it. What's some good resources online and bookwise. I've never so much as looked at perl code so this is a crashcourse. We're losing someone here who is the only perl scripter.

8/7/2006 9:03:38 AM

i thought Learning Perl in the O'Reilly series was pretty good when I first learned. I still reference it every now and then too

8/7/2006 9:20:00 AM

the camel book

8/7/2006 9:38:02 AM

^^ I'll 2nd that, I've got a copy of Learning Perl, 3rd Edition from O'Reilly (the Llama book), its a good book to learn, and good reference

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8/7/2006 9:38:06 AM

I'm assuming you're needing to learn it on a *nix system? I've written some simple scripts but currently am looking at learning to write more indepth scripts. I'll 3rd the O'Reilly series.

8/7/2006 9:44:58 AM

Most probably it will be use don windows servers for internal stuff, not on the main unix servers.

O'Reilly series. I'll check them out. Any chance at a link to one of the boosk to make sure I grab the right one? (amazon.com or something)

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8/7/2006 9:58:57 AM

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/learnperl4/

I was thinking of getting this one. Most of what I've learned so far is just using google and taking existing code and breaking it down. But I really need to learn proper syntax and how to write complicated scripts from the ground up.

8/7/2006 10:08:24 AM

http://learn.perl.org/library/beginning_perl/

check that out. it's online and in PDF. I made it through the first couple of chapters when I was trying to learn it, and it was pretty good

8/7/2006 10:08:42 AM

^^ thanks and ^ super thanks!

8/7/2006 11:03:23 AM

it's a pretty simple language.... you should pick it up pretty fast

8/7/2006 1:46:39 PM

if you're only using windows, I would highly recommend kixtart over perl. I would also pay for the IDE (http://www.adminscripteditor.com) as it's the best I've ever used.

8/7/2006 1:59:36 PM

Use perl over anything else if you want a basic grasp of scripting. The regex you'll learn will help you regardless of any language and you'll love the fact that Perl doesn't care about variable types.

I've got a couple of books I could loan you if you want.

8/7/2006 2:03:50 PM

I should have been more specfic. The O'Reilly book with the llama is for getting the basics. The Camel book is written by the guy who created perl and is the ultimate reference. It's an interesting read and provides alot of info on the creation of the language.

8/7/2006 2:43:40 PM

Hey Raige, just out of curiousity... What does your company/department use Perl scripts for?

8/9/2006 8:53:43 AM

To be honest I'm not entirely sure as to the depth yet. It was a useful skill they want me to have when working with the hospital system and their internal applications that are built on top of it.

8/9/2006 12:43:48 PM

shrug, it is pretty useful in certain applications...

8/9/2006 2:01:28 PM

http://www.cgi101.com/book/

This was a pretty useful starting point when I wanted to hack up some perl web stuff. It helped me impress several ladies.

8/9/2006 11:48:53 PM

perl 6 is coming

8/10/2006 1:29:47 AM