Books to learn PERL CGI

New to PERL CGI

[jkmglasgow]

Can anyone recomend books to learn PERL CGI, have programming experience in mainframe but not this environment.

[lexipixel]

Check out a copy of the "The Perl Cookbook".

[phranque]

welcome to WebmasterWorld, jkmglasgow!

i would start with CGI Programming with Perl written by guelich/gundavaram/birznieks and published by o'reilly.

[perl_diver]

some free onlne perl books (legitmate ones, not pirated copies)

[perl.org...]

get the "Perl BookShelf Reference" on CD. Used ones go very cheaply on amazon.com

[Marcia]

Learning Perl by Randal Schwartz is considered a classic. You can get the 3rd edition for about $8 at Amazon.

I understand the hardest part is grasping Regular Expressions. Is there any book particularly good for that?

[Xelion]

A great book to start on is Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web (2nd Ed) [amazon.com] by Elizabeth Castro. It also includes a great chapter on regular expressions. If you have any questions on that book I'd be happy to answer them. Other than that all I can recommend is the perl documentation [perldoc.perl.org].

[jkmglasgow]

Thanks everyone for your suggestions, will puchase 2 of those suggested, there was so many on Amazon it was confusing.

[balam]

> I understand the hardest part is grasping Regular Expressions. Is there any book particularly good for that?

Mastering Regular Expressions [oreilly.com] from O'Reilly.

[mjwalshe]

"Mastering Regular Expressions from O'Reilly. "

to learn with! thats cruel I think the Learning perl books have a gentle introduction to regexes.

Seeing "That Regex" at the back of the Mastering Regular Expressions to soon could make their head explode ;-)