Can anyone recommend any online tutorials/ books available for free download ?TIA

Not really a tutorial, but when you get going it can be very valuable for quick reference:The Perl Reference Guide/Fredrik

While I'm sure that there are some good online sources, I haven't used any. I got started with O'Reilly's "Learning Perl on Win32 systems" which I found to be an incredibly useful book. Even though most of my Perl is actually (now) on *nix systems, its still the first Perl book I reach for. Highly recommend.Matt.

Some of these links may be outdated but should give you an idea of for what to search.Printed tutorials on various topics:*) Introduction to Perl Course Notes (254 Kb)    http://www.obsidian.com.au/services/perlintro.pdf*) Intermediate Perl Course Notes (198 Kb)    http://www.obsidian.com.au/services/perlinter.pdf*) Perl CGI Course Notes (208 Kb)    http://www.obsidian.com.au/services/perlcgi.pdf*) Object-Oriented Perl Course Notes (217 Kb)    http://www.obsidian.com.au/services/perloo.pdfFollow this link to find an entire book with a separate *.pdf file for each chapter:    http://learn.perl.org/library/beginning_perl/Other online downloadable books or portions can be found at:    http://learn.perl.org/library/--------- ... ------Some other mostly online resources accessible via....Links to several online publications:    http://www.perl.org/books.html- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Online transcripts of magazine columns by Randal Schwartz:*) Linux Magazine Perl Columns    http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/LinuxMag/*) Columns from SysAdmin/PerformanceComputing/UnixReview    http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/UnixReview/*) WebTechniques magazine (defunct)    http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Some HTML-formatted transcripts of magazine articles from ;login magazine:    http://www.usenix.org/publications/perl/Perl Beginners web site    http://perl-begin.berlios.de/The PERL JOURNAL list of resources    http://www.samag.com/tpj/faqs/Perl Archive's Learning Center    http://perlhorizons.com/includes d/l'able chapters from several booksO'Reilly affiliated sites with links off to other sites:    http://www.perl.com/    http://www.perldoc.com/Perl archives:    http://www.perlarchives.com/Comprehensive Perl Archive Network    http://www.cpan.org/    http://bookmarks.cpan.org/

you can find my book in perl, basicallly my VBA code translated to perl, however you naturally need the book in addition The Perl Option Pricing Project

Thanks for all the links, folks, especially kc for the very comprehensive listing.Collector, I will look up your book after I go through the other stuff.

One glaring omission from the earlier list is Reference Cards, useful items when learning a new language:http://www.digilife.be/quickreferences/ ... ards/Those ready-made reference cards only go so far. Another useful technique to copy from books (paper or online), various tables of language elements/features, and cut the paper down to just the size of the table. Then tape a bunch of these to your monitor so you are repeatedly looking at them.

Ahm...Get the Camel book - it will get you there.