Re: [MacPerl] A basic question.

[Matt Henderson <matt@exponet.net>]

On 1/2/99 10:26 PM, Eric Mings (elm@ao.net) wrote:

Eric,
 
>level. So.. I have two questions. First does anyone have a recommedation 
>for resources (e.g. other books or other mailing lists) for novices to 
>help get up to speed?

I've been learning Perl for about three weeks now, and have found that 
for my needs the following four books are absolutely required:

1. "MacPerl Power and Ease" (the one you have)

2. "Learning Perl", Schwartz & Christiansen (O'Reilly) In my opinion, 
this is a great introduction to the language.

3. "Programming Perl", Wall, Christiansen & Schwartz (O'Reilly). Without 
having an extensive programming background, I've found this book hard to 
follow in places. However, it's great for quickly looking up reference 
information (operators, switches, functions, etc.)

4. "Perl Cookbook", Christiansen & Torkington (O'Reilly). This one is 
*highly* recommended. Just about every problem I've considered trying to 
solve with Perl has been found in one of the example in this book. It's 
written in a "Problem, Solution, Discussion" format.

If you're going to be extensively searching and replacing text, you might 
find that you need the following book as well:

5. "Mastering Regular Expressions", Friedl (O'Reilly).

Good luck!

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