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Allexperts CGI & Perl Q&A
Volunteer experts answer your Perl questions.
http://www.allexperts.com/browse.cgi?catLvl=3&catID=1045

Beginning Perl
An online version of the book by Simon Cozens that provides a complete introduction to Perl, aimed even for people without any programming knowledge.
http://www.perl.org/books/beginning-perl/

Brainbell.com Online Perl Book
An online book about Perl that focuses on HTML and CGI programming.
http://www.brainbell.com/tutors/Perl/

Civil Engineering 82.562 -- The Perl Programming Language
A getting started tutorial on the Perl programming language. Covers data types, variables, strings, expressions, input and output, flow control and regular expressions.
http://www.civeng.carleton.ca/Courses/Grad/1994-95/82.562/perl/

A Complete Guide for Perl
Learn Perl in simple steps and use this tutorial as a reference manual.
http://www.tutorialspoint.com/perl/index.htm

Creating Text Mode User Interfaces with Perl
An article that describes a tiny set of functions to create text mode user interfaces in Perl without using external libraries.
http://www2.zdo.com/articles/creating_text_mode_user_interfaces_with_perl.php

Dale Bewley's Perl Scripts and Links
A page that contains CGI scripts and other scripts, and a link collection to other Perl sites.
http://www.bewley.net/perl/

Eric's Perl Tutorial
Free online tutorial covering basic and advanced aspects of Perl for webmasters.
http://perl.ericdlarson.com/

Examples in Perl
That the author found useful and has learned from. Includes an introduction chapter and a reference chapter with links to Perl resources.
http://www.motreja.com/ankur/examplesinperl/

Experts-Exchange: Perl
Quickly find Perl Programming help, information, and assistance from other expert members.
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Languages/Scripting/Perl/

Find Tutorials
Database of Perl tutorials, text taken from books published by Wrox.
http://findtutorials.com/tutorials/perl

FMTEYEWTK
Far More Than Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know About Perl.
http://www.perl.com/doc/FMTEYEWTK/index.html

FreeSkills - Perl Tutorials
Index of tutorials covering attributes, prototypes, regular expressions, subroutines and advanced topics.
http://tutorials.freeskills.com/index/category/80

FreeTechBooks: Perl Scripting Language
Annotated list of free online programming books. Topics range from beginner to advanced. Descriptions, publishing information, links.
http://www.freetechbooks.com/viewforum.php?f=5

Getting Perl
Instructions on downloading a Perl interpreter for your computer platform.
http://www.perl.com/download.csp

Haifa University Perl Course
Slides in English. Covers the basics, regular expressions, data structures, modules, closures and files and processes.
http://yeda.cs.technion.ac.il/~yona/perl/

How Stuff Works: Perl
Marshall Brain shows in 6 pages how to read and write simple Perl scripts.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/perl.htm

How to Program Perl
Advice on materials for learning Perl, and on how to proceed in learning from them.
http://interglacial.com/~sburke/pub/perl.html

Introduction to Perl
A thorough yet quick tutorial that touches on the major uses of Perl.
http://info.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Courses/Perllab/prep/

ITworld - Newsletter Archive
Articles about Perl from beginner level to all kinds of advanced topics.
http://www.itworld.com/nl/perl/

John Bokma - Perl
Short examples of Perl scripts with some explanation.
http://johnbokma.com/perl/

learn.perl.org
Books, mailinglists, and news for people learning or interested in learning Perl.
http://learn.perl.org/

Mother of Perl
Monthly series of hands-on Perl tutorials focusing on Perl for the Web.
http://www.webreference.com/perl/

Netfactory Perl Pond
Examples of Perl usage with graphics, databases, files.
http://netfactory.dk/technology/perl

Nik Silver's Perl Tutorial
A tutorial from his one-day hands-on workshop. Covers the basics, subroutines, arrays, files and regular expressions.
http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/nik/

Object Oriented Perl
A series of extracts from the book by Dr. Damian Conway. [PDF]
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers/PDF/cyberdigest.pdf

Official Perl FAQ
The official frequently asked questions about Perl, as taken from the perldoc manpages.
http://perldoc.perl.org/index-faq.html

Parsing Survey Word Files With PERL
This article will give you a brief overview of the process to extract information from survey files in Microsoft Word format using Perl and the Win32::OLE module.
http://www2.zdo.com/articles/parsing_survey_word_files_with_perl.php

Periodic Table of the Perl 6 Operators
Graphic of Perl 6 operators in the format of the periodic table of elements. [PDF]
http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/blog/code/PeriodicTable.pdf

Perl 6 FAQ
Features over 100 answers to common questions, including changes since Perl 5 and new features such as junctions and multi subs.
http://www.programmersheaven.com/2/Perl6-FAQ

Perl 5 Tutorial
Features a coverage of Perl fundamentals targeted at beginners. Available in PDF format.
http://www.cbkihong.com/index.pl?op=perltut

Perl - Wikipedia
Provides language history, function information and code examples.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl_programming_language

Perl & Y2K
"Perl is every bit as Y2K compliant as is your pencil; no more, and no less".
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/1999/01/y2k.html

Perl Archive's Learning Center
Perl related articles and tutorials.
http://www.perlarchive.com/articles/perl/

Perl Beginners' Site
A beginners site for Perl with links, a mailing list and a Wiki.
http://perl-begin.org/

Perl Course
Contains materials from a 14 week course in Perl suited for self-study.
http://www.upriss.org.uk/perl/PerlCourse.html

Perl Debugged
Official site for the how-to / reference guide on debugging Perl programs, by Peter Scott and Ed Wright.
http://www.perldebugged.com/

Perl Design Patterns Wiki
Free online book and forum.
http://perldesignpatterns.com/

Perl for Perl Newbies
A series of lectures with slides. Covers the basics, data structures, I/O, regular expressions, modules and objects, and some advanced topics.
http://www.shlomifish.org/lecture/Perl/Newbies/

Perl HowTo
Perl collection of tips, howto's, FAQs and tutorials.
http://www.perlhowto.com/

Perl in 20 pages
A guide to Perl 5 for C/C++, awk, and shell programmers.
http://backpan.perl.org/authors/id/Q/QU/QUONG/perlin20.html

Perl Module Mechanics
How to build a perl module, how to document a perl module, how to document a perl program. Also PerlMonth articles, Perl modules. By Steven McDougall.
http://world.std.com/~swmcd/steven/perl/

Perl Modules by Eric Foster-Johnson
An explanation on how to create modules in Perl and the home page of the book with the same title.
http://foster-johnson.com/perlmod.html

Perl6 Object Oriented Cookbook
A 'living' document that provides recipes to explain many OO features of the language.
http://cog.cognitivity.com/perl6/

Perl Regular Expresions
A dynamic tutorial by Nic Miloslav.
http://www.zvon.org/other/PerlTutorial/Output/index.html

PERL, SQL, and Web Publishing Security
Class notes cover everything from the UNIX shell to Perl and regular expressions to CGI scripting to SQL injection attacks.
http://iterationprojects.com/class/

Perl Training Australia's training manuals
Freely available copies of the training manuals used in Perl Training Australia's commercial courses.
http://perltraining.com.au/notes.html

perl.com: Beginner's Introduction to Perl
A series of articles that introduces perl to beginners, and explain some of the basic constructs and syntax used in the language.
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2000/10/begperl1.html

Perl.com's Beginners' Introduction to Perl
Covers the basics, regular expressions, objects, code safety, CGI scripting and files.
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/01/begperl6.html

perlmeme.org
A collection of Frequently Asked Questions, How To documents, and tutorials.
http://www.perlmeme.org

Perl/Tk FAQ
This compilation of Frequently Asked Questions and answers (FAQ) is intended to answer several of the first (and largely more basic) questions posted to the comp.lang.perl.tk newsgroup and the ptk mailing list.
http://w4.lns.cornell.edu/~pvhp/ptk/ptkFAQ.html

Perl/Tk Tutorial - Create GUI with Perl's Tk Module
A tutorial for Perl/Tk language. Teaches how to create and code GUI (Graphical User Interface) programs using Perl and using the Tk module.
http://www.bin-co.com/perl/perl_tk_tutorial/

Picking Up Perl
A freely redistributable tutorial book on Perl in text, HTML, pdf and postscript format.
http://www.ebb.org/PickingUpPerl/

Picking Up Perl, 2nd Edition
An update to the online book with three new chapters on Perl Input/Output and file handling.
http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/perl/

PTI - Fundamentals of Perl
A course with online slides. Covers the basics including syntax, files, regular expressions, data structures and process mangament.
http://www.pti.co.il/talks.html

Robert's Perl Tutorial
A Win32-friendly tutorial to Perl. Covers the basics, regular expressions, I/O, bulk functions, subroutines, modules and debugging.
http://www.sthomas.net/roberts-perl-tutorial.htm

SAGE - Perl Practicum
Index page for several articles that Hal Pomeranz wrote for the USENIX Association's newsletter ";login:"
http://www.usenix.org/publications/perl/

1st SPOT Perl
Information about Perl, a link collection to tutorials and manuals and to Perl programming and script libraries.
http://1st-spot.net/topic_perl.html

Steve's Place - Perl Tutorial
A tutorial, from the basics of variables, objects and regular expressions to operator overloading, CGI, Tk, and image manipulation.
http://www.steve.gb.com/perl/tutorial.html

Suite101 - Perl
Articles on Perl and on Perl modules.
http://www.suite101.com/articles.cfm/perl/

Teach Yourself Perl 5 in 21 days
An online book by David Till with programming examples that covers the basics of Perl.
http://docs.rinet.ru/P7/

Teaching Perl to Middle School Students
Quick program, complete with handouts, for fairly advanced students to learn Perl by creating a tic-tac-toe game.
http://www.svs.com/djr01/

Tizag Perl Tutorial
An introduction to Perl with lessons including: operators, arrays, and file manipulation.
http://www.tizag.com/perlT/

Useful Perl Scripts With Regular Expressions
This tutorial covers how to parse multiple files of specified types in a specific directory and sub directories so that all files can have the same change made to them.
http://www.opensourcetutorials.com/tutorials/Server-Side-Coding/Perl/perl-scripts-regex/page1.html

Using the Perl Debugger
Article by brian d foy about using the Perl debugger.
http://www.ddj.com/184404744

When Perl is not Quite Fast Enough
Explains how to write fast and efficient code.
http://www.ccl4.org/~nick/P/Fast_Enough/

Wikibooks' Programming Perl
A Perl Tutorial from Wikibooks. Covers the basics and the core language as well as interfacing Perl to the outside.
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Perl

perl.com: Perl Design Patterns, Part 2
Phil Crow continues his series on how some popular patterns fit into Perl programming. (August 7, 2003)
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/08/07/design2.html

perl.com: Perl Design Patterns, Part 1
The Gang-of-Four Design Patterns book had a huge impact on programming methodologies in the Java and C++ communities, but what do Design Patterns have to say to Perl programmers? Phil Crow examines how some popular patterns fit in to Perl programming. (June 13, 2003)
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/06/13/design1.html

Strictly On-Line: Network Programming with Perl
Using Perl to perform networking tasks is easy. An article by James Lee. (April 1, 1999)
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3237