Let me point out http://perl-tutorial.org http://perl-tutorial.org because most books you'll find by simply googling are terribly outdated and teach, plainly pu

Let me point out http://perl-tutorial.org http://perl-tutorial.org because most books you'll find by simply googling are terribly outdated and teach, plainly put, how to write shitty perl. Modern Perl and Ovid's Beginning Perl (not the older Beginning Perl) are excellent books to learn from. Also a note about the sigil: Get a decent syntax highlighting set up for your editor and you'll quickly realize how nice it is to have functions, variables and different variable types colored differently.