Can anyone tell me the best resource for learning perl for free.?

Hi all,


I am learning Perl and I need the best Perl resources that can make good at Perl programming. I would really really feel happy if anyone could help me.

Can anyone tell me the best resource for learning perl for free.?
I learned perl from reading BAD code... I wrote BAD code for a while, then I bought some O'Reilly Books... wow they really helped!





perldoc command can really help too! it's part of the perl installation on most systems,





http://cpan.org is THE reference for perl modules, anyone who has written anything cool posts it on the cpan servers.





If the code looks cool to you and resembles C or pascal or java... its good... if it looks weird and horrible it is probably legacy perl code.





the whole perl language is being re-written as perl 6, it is complete and complex and rivals all the other languages... pick up a book on perl 6 after you've read a few perl books!





the perl cookbook really helped me (I own the whole O'reilly's perl library)
Reply:get an O'Reilly book from the library and study the all the free code available online.
Reply:I don't know what the "best resources" are, but a Google search for "perl tutorial" should bring up some good results.
Reply:The "Camel" book, the O'Reily books as indicated from the previous answerers, are written by people who are actively in designing Perl.





Additionally, there is documentation at Perl.com: http://www.perl.com/pub/q/documentation





There is stuff they use there that also gets into the O'Reily book.

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