I registered here about 7 years before I had my "pass the salt" moment and finally wrote my first post (asking for help with some XML).
For the most part, you can get a lot out of PM just by searching, or even just choosing it over other links when Googling for answers. Perl has been a very stable language for a long time insofar as stuff that worked a decade ago is very unlikely to be broken by later versions (unlike some other languages I use). This makes it easy to solve problems by search if you understand the basic logic of what you want to do and can read the examples in module docs and read a perldoc page.
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Are you posting in the right place? Check out Where do I post X? to know for sure.
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Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:
<code> <a> <b> <big>
<blockquote> <br /> <dd>
<dl> <dt> <em> <font>
<h1> <h2> <h3> <h4>
<h5> <h6> <hr /> <i>
<li> <nbsp> <ol> <p>
<small> <strike> <strong>
<sub> <sup> <table>
<td> <th> <tr> <tt>
<u> <ul>
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Snippets of code should be wrapped in
<code> tags not
<pre> tags. In fact, <pre>
tags should generally be avoided. If they must
be used, extreme care should be
taken to ensure that their contents do not
have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent
horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor
intervention).
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Want more info? How to link
or How to display code and escape characters
are good places to start.
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