On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 [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!
I question the value of any Perl book that does not teach you anything
about regular expressions (regex is short for regular expression).
-- Brett
http://www.chapelperilous.net/btfwk/
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