Perl 5 for Dummies by Paul E. Hoffman

I've always enjoyed books from the "Dummies" series because they tend to be easy to understand and do not overwhelm you with all the technical details that you usually find in the hard to read manuals.

This book, however, had quite a few important pieces of information left out and some of the examples in the book did not work. That's not good if you're using this book to learn from. I ended up having to look up some of the information from the internet or other perl books that I have.

It's an ok book but be sure to have other books handy, like maybe a reference book to accompany this one and you'll be ok.