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On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 15:56:05 -0700, Efi Gotbeter wrote:
>I was hoping you could perhaps direct me in
>a direction geared more towards ignorant newbies.
Er... the "MacPerl, Power and Ease" book gets good reviews. The Llame
book, "Learing Perl", is good for people new to Perl but not new to
programming. As for more books...
<http://www.perl.com/pub/q/booksalpha/>
You can also start from <http://www.macperl.org/>, but you knew that of
course. How else would you have found the mailing list...
I also always quite liked WebMonkey, though it's been a while since I
went there. <http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/programming/perl_cgi/>
>Moreover, I was hoping
>you knew of a PERL-commands database that I could access on the web.
You mean a language reference? Why, it's all there on your computer!
There's a complete help menu, and if you want info on a certain
function, just type it in a code window (but not starting from the very
first character in the window, due to a bug!), put the cursor on it, and
press command-H. That's all in "perlfunc". Also very important are
perlop for operators, perlre for regexes, and in fact, quite a few
others.
HTH,
Bart.
