Perl resources

Installation and documentation

• About Perl
• cpan: Perl Source — instructions to install Perl from source

You can use perldoc command to access documentation from the command line. You can visit https://perldoc.perl.org/ if you wish to read it online, which also has a handy search feature.

• perldoc: perlintro — introduction for beginners
• perldoc: overview — execution and options, table of contents
• perldoc: in-depth tutorials — categorized by different topics and features
• perldoc: faqs

Tutorials and Books

• Learning Perl, 8th Edition — getting started with Perl, whether you're a programmer, system administrator, or web hacker
• Perl Maven — basics of the Perl programming language. You'll be able to write simple scripts, analyze log files and read and write CSV files. Just to name a few common tasks
• Modern Perl — teaches you how Perl really works, from its philosophical roots to the pragmatic decisions that help you solve real problems and keep them solved
• Effective Perl Programming — write better, more idiomatic Perl
• Perl for newbies — provide Perl newcomers with the most high-quality and accessible material and references for learning the Perl programming language as easily, as accurately, and as efficiently, as possible
• perlmeme — FAQs, HOWTOs and TUTORIALs (working example code of various tasks in Perl like parsing CSV/HTML, creating web form, connecting to database, etc)

I wrote an ebook specifically for Perl One-Liners, which is free to read online.

Code snippets, articles and exercises

• Perl can do that now! — highlight of changes from Perl 5.10 to 5.34
  • see also Perl release summary
• Rosettacode: snippets/solutions on various programming problems
• Perl Command-Line Options
• catonmat: Perl one-liners explained
• stackoverflow: Perl Q&A
• stackoverflow: interactive console for Perl
• learnxinyminutes: cheatsheet with descriptions
• Hyperpolyglot — side-by-side reference sheet for PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby
• Practice and Coding Challenges
  • The Weekly Challenge - Perl & Raku
  • exercism
  • /r/dailyprogrammer

Regular Expressions

• Perldoc guides to regular expressions
  • quick start
  • longer tutorial
  • syntax of regular expressions
  • FAQ on regular expressions
• Practice and general regexp tutorials (i.e they may not be Perl specific)
  • regex101 — online regex tester, shows explanations, has reference guides and ability to save and share regex
  • debuggex — railroad diagrams for regular expressions
  • stackoverflow: what does this regex mean?
  • regexcrossword — practice by solving crosswords, read 'How to play' section before you start, only supports JS flavor

Reading lists

• awesome-perl — curated list of awesome Perl5 frameworks, libraries and software
• perlres — list of resources about Perl
• bioperl — practical descriptions of BioPerl modules with a focus on common tasks

Raku

Formerly known as Perl 6

• Official site
  • docs.raku: Perl to Raku guide in a nutshell
  • docs.raku: faq
  • examples collection
• learnxinyminutes: Raku
• stackoverflow: Raku info
• Raku book list

Forums, Blogs, Newsletters

• /r/perl/
• /r/rakulang/
• stackoverflow: perl
• stackoverflow: raku
• perlmonks
• perl.com — articles about Perl programming, news and culture
• perlweekly — once a week e-mail round-up of hand-picked news and articles about Perl