Far More Than Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know About...

This series contains a set of documents that address perl-related certain topic areas in depth. They range from nothing but simple copies of somewhat lengthy news postings to real, full-blown, htmlified, complete tutorials. Don't neglect the faq or manual, though.

HTML format

Here's what I have in HTML format:

My style talk from the 1998 Perl Conference.
Gisle Aas's wonderful illustrated guide to Perl's internals.
A tutorial on Perl objects. For general information on objects, you might also want to check out The OO Soapbox.
An explanation of how pseudorandom numbers work by Tom Phoenix.
An explanation of why Perl "lets" you delete or rename read-only files.
Is Perl a Compiler or an Interpreter?
Bill Middleton's perl4 to perl5 traps page.
What Makes Perl's Regular Expressions Dynamite
Backtracking in regular expressions
Perl Data Structures Cookbook (perldsc etc man pages broken up by section)
Interprocess Communication (perlipc man page broken up by section)
Using tie() (perltie man page broken up by section)
How to know whether something's numeric
Lots of details on sorting
An easy introduction to perl5 objects.

plaintext format

Here's what I have in plain-text format via ftp:

Filehandles
Note that the 5.002 manual now covers this much better.
Safe shell escapes
Why we use eval 'exec perl $0 -S ${1+"$@"}'
Array slices
Switch Statements
use versus require

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The Perl home page.