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Location: Perfidious Albion
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Buy the Perl CD Bookshelf, 6 searchable books ("Perl in a Nutshell", "Learning Perl", "Programming Perl", "Perl Cookbook", "Learning Perl Objects, References and Modules" and "Mastering Regular Expressions" (PDF), with a bonus dead tree copy of "Perl in a Nutshell". Available cheap on Amazon, and very useful for searching for stuff. You can also load onto your laptop and take it with you.
The O'Reilly books are a great start, although Randal Schwartz's "Pearls Of Wisdom" series is classic, and the "Pro Perl Debugging" Apress book has the only good, in-depth treatment of the Perl Debugger I've ever seen. Sooner or later, "print" statements just ain't gonna cut it...
Oh, and once you've learnt a little Perl, surf CPAN for a week. No point spending 3 days writing some dodgy code when someone has been developing/maintaining industrial-strength modules that do exactly what you want for the last 3 years...
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