Sorry, your right it's the lama book. I was at work and didn't have access to the book. The camel book is Programming Perl. I also have "Teach Yourself Perl 5 in 21 days" book (the oyster/pearl book) ;) The Teach Yourself . . . is good in that it gives you samples upon samples of perl code and it is also easy to read and understand. alan :) >> I'm at work so I don't have access to all my books, but I use >> the following books >> >> Learning Perl 5 (the camel book) by o'reilly >Isn't that the Llama? (Pedantic person that I am ;) ===== Want to unsubscribe from this list? ===== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-request@macperl.org