note purp Cookbook, too; <tt>perldoc -f</tt> is always handy for what the camel book offers. (and paper? I stopped killing trees to write programs just as fast as I could ;)<br><br> My real answer, though, is "whichever applies to what I'm doing at the moment and has what I don't know well enough yet." That was "Programming the Perl DBI" most recently. Dunno what it'll be next.<br><br> <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-49558"> --<br> Jim Meyer, Geek At Large </div></div> 551265 551265