../public_html/reference.htm converted to plain text (tables are not shown) left margin 8 right margin 50 Best place for Perl resources is www.perl.com . This is short reference only. FAQs * Perl FAQ Index * CPAN Main FAQ Page * CGI Programming MetaFAQ News Groups * comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi * comp.lang.perl.misc * comp.lang.perl * comp.lang.perl.announce * comp.lang.perl.modules * comp.lang.perl.tk Documentation * Main Documentation Page on perl.com - man pages, Modules, FAQs, Books etc. in text, html, postscript * CGI Related Modules * Perl man pages * Standard Modules * Perl built-in functions C Interface * Calling Perl from C * Calling C from Perl Databases * MySQL Reference * PHP Quick Reference Web Sites * Perl.com - central Web site for the Perl community * Perl Mongers - Perl groups around the world * experts-exchange  - Another place to ask Perl questions * The Apache/Perl Integration Project Books     O'REILLY is one of the best sources of books on Perl.     Here's  couple of good books: Learning Perl (Llama), Perl in a Nutshell , Mastering  Regular Expressions, Perl Cookbook     Advanced level  absolute Must Have: Programming Perl, 2nd Edition (Camel) Magazines * TPJ - The Perl Journal    (quarterly, Editor/Publisher: Jon Orwant) * Web Techniques Perl Columns  (Randal Schwartz) * Unix Review Perl Columns  (Randal Schwartz) Download Software * Latest version of Perl * Pre-compiled Perl Ports