If "Pearl" == "Perl" then you might find this site useful: http://www.ebb.org/PickingUpPerl/
It's a complete and free perl tutorial you can read online or download as pdf. (It has been written for version 5.6 however)
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Benjamin Duehring, FORWISS
Universitaet Passau, D-94030 Passau
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