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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Tom Miller wrote:</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> What is your opinion of the "2nd" Perl book I should</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> get. I have Perl for Dummies and the O'Reilly Perl/</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> CGI books.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I've been maintaining an amazon listmania list of Perl book recommendations. I've just updated it a bit. It starts introductory moves toward advanced subjects, before forking off in many different sub-topics.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Going out on a limb though... After you've worked through a good bit of Programming Perl, the best advice I can give is to start wading through the standard perl distribution documentation one section at a time. Perldoc is your friend: <A HREF="http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/perl.html" TARGET="_blank">http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/perl.html</A>.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>All the documentation is usually installed during the Perl install. You can read up on how to use perldoc by going to a shell and typing:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2> perldoc perldoc</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I'd recommend starting with:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2> perldoc perlintro</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>and</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2> perldoc perltoc</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Garrett</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>--</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Garrett Goebel</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>IS Development Specialist</FONT>
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