New to perl

A quick few questions

[Agzl]

Do you guys know about any sites i can learn some perl?

[msr986]

Try this:

PERL [google.com]

[jatar_k]

or even better perl books [google.com]

[DrDoc]

Then there's always the Perl Documentation [perl.com].

[Matt Probert]

Can I recommend a certain book, "Perl by Example" published by Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-028251-0

I found it very effective for getting started.

As always, preview it at your local library before making any financial investment.

Matt

[Agzl]

cheers

[JollyK]

If you already know PHP and want to move to Perl, google for "perl to php translation." There's at least one fabulous site out there that gave me pretty much everything I needed to rewrite almost all my Perl scripts in PHP. What it didn't have, the main PHP site's manual pages did have. I think the same would work for going from PHP to Perl.

I'd also suggest having something you want to accomplish with Perl before starting. For example, what do you want to do with Perl? Do you want to write system administration scripts, or CGI scripts? Pick something that you'd like to do, go hit one of the big free Perl scripts sites, download a script, and look it over to see if you can figure out what it's doing. Check out the perl documentation as you go to explain what you're looking at. Maybe try to modify the script a little to get a feel for how the code works.

I found the best way to learn a language was to start with some simple code, figure it out, and start making changes to it, but then, I have more of a "learn by example" kind of mindset.

JK

[Agzl]

I love Php,its my speciality
ive been into it for 8 years so im an expert*
Perl seems this demanding language to me so i wanna learn more (Im a newbie)

[JollyK]

Heh. PHP and Perl mess me up because they're so similar and I work with both. Take a simple PHP script and translate it to Perl: that might be the most helpful if you already know PHP.

JK

[Agzl]

cheers