On 5 Mar 2003 20:45:59 -0000, Silvio Alberto Ospina Salgado wrote: >my name is Silvio Ospina, I was reading the information in man ___ but I do >not find elemental information. I try to run perl in suse 8.1 in >/usr/bin/perl -w and the next line is white, I am looking for a simple >exercice for compilar and look the result of the program. For instans I write >print "Hello word" but How can I do for execute the elemental program? How I >can know that the perl program is working? > >Could you recomend me an excellent book for mysql/perl whith examples because >I need to make a database for a library. > >Thanks a lot
"man perl" should give you an outline of the perl documentation available. It strongly urges those new to perl to start by reading through "man perlintro" which should answer your question about running perl. If the documentation there is inadequate, please let us know where it needs to be improved. Reading through "man perl" should also have shown you a reference to "man perlbook", which has some information about perl books. More can be found abount halfway through "man perlfaq2" in the section titled "Perl Books". None about mysql though. The web page referred to is quite out of date, and shouldn't be spoken of by the FAQ in such positive terms (patch follows). --- perlfaq2.pod.orig Thu Jan 30 14:05:30 2003 +++ perlfaq2.pod Thu Mar 27 00:22:10 2003 @@ -218,10 +218,10 @@ =head2 Perl Books -A number of books on Perl and/or CGI programming are available. A few of -these are good, some are OK, but many aren't worth your money. Tom -Christiansen maintains a list of these books, some with extensive -reviews, at http://www.perl.com/perl/critiques/index.html . +A number of books on Perl and/or CGI programming are available. A few +of these are good, some are OK, but many aren't worth your money. +Reviews for some of these books can be found on Tom Christiansen's +outdated page at http://www.perl.com/perl/critiques/index.html . The incontestably definitive reference book on Perl, written by the creator of Perl, is now (July 2000) in its third edition: End of Patch.
