At 04:32 PM 6/13/01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I read Learn Perl in 24 Hours. I did the exercises in the book, and I wrote
>a couple web pages where you could submit a text file that would be posted
>onto the web (i.e. joke of the day sites). I've written scripts that have
>taken
>files of lists of labels, compared them, then built a list of the ones that
>were
>in one an not the other file. I thought that qualified me as a beginner.
>Then
>I join this group, and I get discussions of regexes and XML, etc. I have
>no idea what a regex is! What books have you guys (who I assume are
>beginners too, since that's the name of this board) been reading? Turn
>me into a beginner too!
As a generalization, nothing worth learning can be learned in 24 hours. So
I wouldn't touch a book whose title was already false.
Try "Learning Perl" second edition, from O'Reilly.
--
Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
http://www.perldebugged.com
