Rating:  - Not for learning Perl, but a great reference.
The Perl Cookbook is very comprehensive, compared to other Perl books that we've come across. We would agree with the back of the book in saying that it is one of the best programming textbooks we have ever read. The book's receipt is very timely, for us, since we were having an issue with storing data structures to disk at the time we read the book. The Perl "Recipe" in the book helped us greatly in our application development. We especially like the regular expression grab bag in the middle, we use it all the time. Our students have been very eager to soak up the Perl help that the book provided.
Rating: - Very good quick solutions guide for Perl programmers
This guide provides lots of ready-to-use solutions for all sorts of tasks - a great compliment to the "Learning Perl" and "Programming Perl" titles, also from O'Reilly.
Rating: - Good for learning perl but fabulous for using perl
Perl is a flexible but often cryptic programming language, with so many uses that regular computer/UNIX users would do well to learn to use it. Over the last six years, I have probably written 200 different perl scripts to suit a myriad of purposes. I have found this book to be the best resource of examples and starting points, far superior to other perl and scripting books. The success of the O'Reilly "cookbook" concept appears to have resulted in similar books about Java, C++ and Linux administration. I have not even looked at about half of this resource and probably never will, but it has been a truly worthwhile investment.
Rating:  - Perl is cool
Perl is a beautiful language and I speak many languages. Perl cookbook is an excellent way to start leaning the language in a sprint. Reading this book alone will not make you a guru, but if you have a short time to solve a problem, try perl cookbook.
Having this book on my shelf have proven very usefull on several occassions in the past and I can see it coming handy in the future.
The book though has its limitations , i find the web automation recipees a nuisance and often have to look elsewhere for guidance on that, but as a whole its a volume worth having
Rating: - Essential for Perl writers!
This book is not about teaching you the theories or nuances of each command. Rather, it provides EXAMPLES on how to write certain section of code that prove invaluable. When you want to write a routine to do a little something, but not sure how to go about it most efficiently/elegantly, or just plain clueless (often my case), this book is a godsend. Also contains many uses for handy modules that most of us never even knew existed. I suggest getting the newer 2nd ed. and complement it with O'Reilly's excellent Programming Perl book.
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