In my eyes, the O-Reilly-Book Learning Perl is rather good, but if you are an experianced Unix-Administrator and C-Programmer, you could perhaps start over with Programming Perl immediately.

Maybe a look at Robert's Perl Tutorial might help you anyway. You can find it at: http://www.netcat.co.uk/rob/perl/win32perltut.html
It covers the basics in a good way.

Best regards,
perl -e "print a|r,p|d=>b|p=>chr 3**2 .7=>t and t"