I learned through trudging, but I'm sure there's good tutorials out there somewhere.
Programming in Perl is definitely programming. Don't let anybody tell you different.
thanks. Most of it has been trial and error for me. The majority of my parsing is router configs and command outputs, which every vendor is different, so its basically force feeding me to figure it out, but i can do the coding pretty quick but it takes me all the extra time to figure out the proper regex
i'm sure the coding is ugly and inefficient, i need to force myself to learn how to create and reuse my subroutines.