This is a book for learning more Perl. Neither a reference book nor a tutorial book, the Perl Cookbook serves as a companion book to both. It's for people who already know the basics but are wondering how to mix all those ingredients together into a complete program.—Tom Christiansen & Nathan Torkington, "Preface", Perl Cookbook
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