Contrary to popular belief, not all of life's answers can be found online. Need proof? Read one of these Monkey-recommended tomes:
Learning Perl, 2nd Edition O'Reilly & Associates Five out of five Wired Digital engineers agree: This book's a must for the Perl beginner.
Programming Perl O'Reilly & Associates This is the authoritative guide to
Perl, written by Perl demigod Larry Wall. Includes info about Perl syntax,
functions, library modules, references, debugging, and object-oriented
programming.
Advanced Perl Programming O'Reilly & Associates This Perl reference covers complex
techniques for managing Perl programs. It includes topics related to networks, databases, GUIs, and embedding Perl within C.
Web-Client Programming with PERL O'Reilly & Associates Here's another book you'll likely find on several desks in our office. It explains how to write customized Web clients to automate common tasks.
Mastering Regular Expressions O'Reilly & Associates This is the book that inspired Mattmarg's "Perl poetry." You can't get a higher recommendation than that.