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Well I must say that I am highly disappointed in this book. I was taking an intro to Perl Class in college and this was our text book. I found it very confusing with few real application examples, and it appeared, at times, that the Author's of this book were trying to be too cleaver..verses being clear and concise.
I suppose my largest gripe with this book is that, ( especially for a newbie), it moves from point A to point B without explaining sufficently why you would ever want to do either of them in the first place.

I was hoping to get more out of this book than I did... I would not recommened it for anyone who is just start off. ;0(