[plug] PERL book

[Steve Grasso]

>I'm also looking at buying a Perl book, I'm new to the language, and sort of
>new to Programming on a whole. Any suggestions on a good Perl book for a
>beginner?

Don't forget the many FREE online resources eg:
(YMMV)

General perl:
http://www.codebits.com/p5be/
http://www.wdvl.com/Authoring/Languages/Perl/5/
http://www.world-of-products.com/reference/perl5ref.htm
http://language.perl.com/faq/index.html
http://agora.leeds.ac.uk/nik/Perl/start.html
http://www.cs.ruu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/perl-faq/part4.html
http://pabst.bendnet.com/users/gene/perl.html

More nitty-grittyish:
http://home.t-online.de/home/wahls/perlnet.html
ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/unix/languages/perl/CPAN/doc/manual/html/pod/perlfunc 
.html

Also, seeing how others have coded something up can save you time, and be a 
learning experience. Random selections from many sites available:

http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/214/1/
http://www.gunther.web66.com/FAQS/taintmode.html
http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/docs/man/pl-suid.html
http://perl.about.com/compute/perl/msub10.htm
http://www.perlarchive.com/guide/Internet_Protocols_and_Tools/index.shtml
http://perl.about.com/compute/perl/mbody.htm
http://stein.cshl.org/~lstein/talks/perl/perl98.html
http://davecentral.com/cgilib.html
http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts/
http://www.dcscripts.com/otherscripts.shtml
http://www.dtp-aus.com/cgiscript/allcgi.shtml
http://www.extropia.com/products.html

etc etc

Happy perling Daniel!
CU
Steve