Rating:  - Simply Excellent - Great work!!
I used it for most of my Perl programming requirements.
Superbly written, great content, great examples,very helpful!
Rating:  - go with programming perl instead
Don't spend money on this book. Unless you are a beginner with no experience you will not learn anything new from it. Programming Perl is a much better book that contains all of the information found in this book plus x10 more.
Rating: - Best practical book on Perl
I have seen lots Perl books and documentations, but this one very helpful when you really coding Perl. It has practical problems solved and discussed.
It only lacks detailed matter on CGI-Perl.
Rating: - Fantastic resource
Having used Perl for about 3 years now, I was overly comfortable with the language and originally bought the book because many a colleagues had recommended this resource to even seasoned perl programmers .The approach of this book is far different from most of those lofty, heady books with their shopping carts and examples of basically useless coding ideas. Tom takes real life needs and cooks them up with short, useable snippets of code. Having read this book from front to back i have found the resource ideal as a daily reference for problem solving]." Another nice thing was that I started finding functions that I didn't even know existed and then started imagining uses for them to solve problems I hadn't thought of as problems!
Great one. Keep these good books coming
Rating: - The book every Perl programmer should own
More books like these should be written for all popular languages. This is by far the most used book for me when I started to learn and program using Win32 Perl. I've not run into any problems with programming in the Win32 environment with this book. The second most used book is "Perl in a Nutshell," also by O'Reilly. But if there's a problem I have, I reach for this book first. 700+ pages packed with solutions and explanations of those solutions to many common problems. Most of the time, you'll find something in there to get you started if it doesn't solve your problem outright. There are whole sections for solving problems with:
Strings
Numbers
Date and Times
Arrays
Hashes
Pattern Matching
File Access
File Contents
Directories
Subroutines
References and Records
Packages, Libraries and Modules
Classes, Objects and Ties
Database Access
User Interface
Process AManagement and Communication
Sockets
Internet Services
CGI Programming
Web Automation
That's 20 sections in all! Get the book and stop suffering while looking for answers to your Perl problems. This book easily saved a month's worth of my time during a 4 month project. Plus, it saved me from writing inefficient code simply because I was new to the language and didn't know the tricks that can be used for such a wonderful language.
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