Hi all - I would like to recommend "Effective Perl Programming" by Joseph N. Hall with Randal L, Schwartz, Addison-Wesley, 1998, ISBN 0-201-41975-0. Although "old", it has really helped my style.
I was raised with c. My early Perl efforts were very c-ish. For example, to print an array I went from: for (my $i = 0; $i < scalar (@array}; $i++) { print ("$array[$i]\n"); } to: print "$_\n" for (@array); Now, if I could just find a book that would tell me how to condense this further to: ; and having got that far, remembering that the trailing semicolon in a block is optional, to: But in all seriousness, EPP is very helpful. Aloha - Beau. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]