I think "Learning Perl" by Randal Schwartz and Tom Christiansen covers more than
"Learn Perl in 24 Hours".
If you "really" wanna know something about regex, try "Mastering Regular
Expressions" by Jeffrey Friedl, and enjoy ;=)
Of course, you can always consult "Programming Perl" by Larry Wall, Tom
Christianse and Jon Orwant.
By the way, all three books are from O'Reilly.
Wen
>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!
>
>Kirk
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