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Old July 24th, 2001, 08:18 PM
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Hello Perl Land

Hello, Well i am sure all your Perl people are gonna love this lol,
I am a PHP codeer and am going to be changing to Perl, I am a tech support Admin for a comapny that is goign to be using Perl scripts, So i told them it would be in good interest if i learned Perl and drop PHP, They agreed, I would like to ask if there are any good resource sites that can help me speed up my knowledge of Perl, like phpbuilder, zend.com and any others like them. If you have any Tips for me then please let me know.

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Old July 24th, 2001, 08:48 PM
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One of the best sites if you truly want to learn perl is www.perlmonks.org. There are tutorials and very, very helpful coders there. This isn't the type of site that responds well to 3l33t haxorz, meaning the level of discussion is pretty damn good. I would say that most of the members are truly professional coders who know their stuff, and/or are learning.

Check some of the mailing lists (perlmongers?), and get some of the O'Reilly books like Learning Perl and CGI programming with Perl. The "Visual Quickstart" books bite. They teach you really bad coding.

You'll find me at perlmonks too (Hero Zzyzzx, strangely enough).

Another great resource is the documentation that comes with a perl install- there are some top-notch tutorials in there. Look at some of the recent posts for info on reading the perl docs.

Good luck! Why learn PHP when you can learn a real programming language?

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Old July 24th, 2001, 08:55 PM
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Thank you your fast reply and for the links, and yes i forgot to mention that i will be getting some books on Perl

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Old July 25th, 2001, 12:16 PM
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Coming from PHP, you obviously have some programming background. So, you might do well simply reading the documentation that comes with the standard Perl distribution.

From the command line, type:
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$ perldoc perl

That will return a list of Perl Documentation like:
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NAME
       perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language

SYNOPSIS
       perl [ -sTuU ]      [ -hv ] [ -V[:configvar] ]
            [ -cw ] [ -d[:debugger] ] [ -D[number/list]]
            [ -pna ] [ -Fpattern ] [ -l[octal] ] [ -0[octal] ]
            [ -Idir ] [ -m[-]module ] [ -M[-]'module...' ]
            [ -P ]      [ -S ]      [ -x[dir] ]
            [ -i[extension] ]
            [ -e 'command' ] [ -- ] [ programfile ] [ argument ]...

       For ease of access, the Perl manual has been split up into
       a number of sections:

           perl                Perl overview (this section)
           perldelta           Perl changes since previous version
           perl5004delta       Perl changes in version 5.004
           perlfaq             Perl frequently asked questions
           perltoc             Perl documentation table of contents

           perldata            Perl data structures
           perlsyn             Perl syntax
           perlop              Perl operators and precedence
           perlre              Perl regular expressions
           perlrun             Perl execution and options
           perlfunc            Perl builtin functions
           perlopentut         Perl open() tutorial
           perlvar             Perl predefined variables
           perlsub             Perl subroutines
           perlmod             Perl modules: how they work
           perlmodlib          Perl modules: how to write and use
           perlmodinstall      Perl modules: how to install from CPAN
           perlform            Perl formats
           perllocale          Perl locale support

           perlref             Perl references
           perlreftut          Perl references short introduction
           perldsc             Perl data structures intro
           perllol             Perl data structures: lists of lists
           perltoot            Perl OO tutorial
           perlobj             Perl objects
           perltie             Perl objects hidden behind simple variables
           perlbot             Perl OO tricks and examples
           perlipc             Perl interprocess communication
           perlthrtut          Perl threads tutorial

           perldebug           Perl debugging
           perldiag            Perl diagnostic messages
           perlsec             Perl security
           perltrap            Perl traps for the unwary
           perlport            Perl portability guide
           perlstyle           Perl style guide

To start learning right away, start from perldata and work your way down.

PerlMonks also has this list in a web-based format so you could take a look at that.

Anyway, enjoy!

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print map{pack "H*",$_}('4a75737420416e6f74686572205065726c204861636b6572'=~m/(..)/g);print "$/";
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I would buy a book like Programming Perl from O'Reilly to get started in learning perl.

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