Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days, Second Edition

Going Deeper

Going deeper? We've barely gone shallow! You'll find this section at the end of each lesson in this book. The idea behind these “Going Deeper” sections is that there's stuff about Perl that I don't have the time to teach you, or additional ways of doing things (remember, “there's more than one way to do it”). The Going Deeper section in each chapter will give you short overview of these features and pointers to places where you can learn more—the online Perl documentation that comes with your Perl interpreter or the information on http://www.perl.com/.

Getting Perl Documentation

Much of Perl's online documentation is in the form of man pages (man being Unix shorthand for manual). Throughout this book, I'll be referring to those man ...