Re: [SLUG] Reading a file into variables?

[Robert Loomans <robert@nospam.netizen.com.au>]

On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 07:12:32PM +1000, George Vieira wrote:
> I've got a bit to play with now thanks to your help.
> I was looking for a Perl book and would you believe there isn't much around
> these days (well at least were I went looking). It's either VB or Java or C
> but I found little on Perl.. Very annoying..

BookPool, http://www.bookpool.com, in the US has very good prices on the
O'Reilly books (the definitive texts on Perl, and other things...) I found
that even if I got the fastest version of DHL shipping, it was cheaper than
going to Dymocks!

Learning Perl and Programming Perl are very good. A couple of non-O'Reilly
books that are good are Elements of Programming with Perl and Object
Oriented Perl, both published by Manning.

To get you started, our training notes for Perl are available on our web
site at http://netizen.com.au/services/training/

> Unfortunately we do alot of Java here and I'm probably better off learning
> that instead. So many languages , so little time...

Java can be very useful, but I find Perl much easier and faster for many
tasks. Additionally, I've had fewer problems with getting code developed on
Linux/FreeBSD/other UN*X to run on other UN*X boxen, as well as fewer subtle
problems swapping between them and Windows 98/NT/etc. (I said *subtle* :)

Good Luck!
    Rob

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