You shouldn't feel too bad - my company sent me to Perl training and my
instructor (okay, he was a sub) couldn't give me a good definition of
regular expressions!
I think the reason why you see so many different types of discussions here
is that many of us probably work as developers in other lan
Kirk,
The most popular tutorial book for Perl is "Learning Perl" by Randal
Schwartz et al. . I started learning from it, and look where I am now
*grin*
The 3rd edition should be coming out next month, so you may want to hold
off on it and read some online docs 'till then, as it will probabl
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,
Regexes (regular expressions) are pretty important - I'm surprised the "24
hours" book didn't mention them.
I'd suggest reading O'Reilly's "Learning Perl" (aka "the llama book") for a
healthy introduction to regexes.
chad
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At 05:32 PM 6/13/2001, you wrote:
>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
Despair not.
Well a regex is a regular expression ... I am pretty sure you will come round
to it eventually if you go info hunting on perl. A good book that I always
recommend (for beginners) is "Learning Perl" published by O'Reilly.
It is a bit difficult for a beginner sometimes as Perl can be used for so m
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
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
