Need a good perl book

[Dbest]

Hi everyone, I'm looking for a good perl book basically one that goes from basic topics to advance, any suggestions. Need options as soon as possible, thanks in advance.

[Dbest]

Is this a good perl book???
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/boo...sbn=0596000278

[SpookyEddy]

The O'REILLY books are excellent IMO.

I have "Learning Perl" which provides a good intro to perl & is in a chatty style (very newbie friendly). It covers many of the core subjects, has snips of code & is easy to read cover-to-cover.

I also have "Programming Perl" which is coauthored by Larry Wall, the creator of Perl. Its also a great book & covers many of the topics in more detail.

Finally I have "Mastering Perl/Tk" for when I need a GUI for my scripts. It covers the basics of creating a frontend using Tk widgets & some of the general ideas befing good GUI design.

Anyway.. I would just like to take this opertunity to say I am really bad at perl but enjoy hacking stuff about & all 3 books have been usefull & interesting reads.

Regards

eddy

[Dbest]

Thanks for the feedback Spooky , I'm going to buy a book tomorrow since I'm going to be working with perl and need a strong book that helps me out ans serves as reference. Anyway thanks

[SpookyEddy]

Your welcome.. if you have any specific questions feel free to ask. The O'reilly books really are good IMO. Someone else also does a book called "data munging with perl" or similar, which is great of you want info on mangling text files etc.

Also.. like the Vash avatar

Later

ed