hi , i am also the the beginner of perl, I most suggest you to use oreilly Learning Perl plus some online doc my school use these two materials as lecture notes http://www.ebb.org/PickingUpPerl/pickingUpPerl.pdf http://www.netcat.co.uk/rob/perl/win32perltut.html there are very useful for learning perl, and my addtional suggestion is http://www.scriptsearch.com/Perl/ for some scripting , plus http://www.perl.com/cs/user/query/q/6?id_topic=74 Enjoy Perl ^^" ~