This is the errata file for the April 1994 printing of the first edition of "Learning Perl." It will be updated as we become aware of problems. If you find an error that is not listed here, please send email to: bookquestions@ora.com. page 15 Regex footnote s*/(\S).*/\L$1/ should be /(\S*).*/\L$1/ page 32 $name = $password[5] should be $name = $password[6] page 143 close(ETC) should be closedir(ETC) in two places page 152 time + 20*60*60 ; # 20 hours from now should be time + 20*60 ; # 20 minutes from now page 188 The following paragraph is partially missing from top of page: Fixed-Length Random Access Databases ~~~~~ ~~~~~~ ~~~~~~ ~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ Another form of persistent data is the fixed-length, record-oriented disk file. In this scheme, the data consists of a number of records of identical length. The numbering of the records is either not important or determined by some indexing scheme. page 197 The greek letter "pi" is missing inside the parentheses "First, we give a constant value () to" Although the Camel (Programming Perl) and Llama (Learning Perl) books precedence charts differ, it is the Camel book that is in error, not the Llama book. The Camel chart will be fixed at the next Camel rewrite. updated 10/31/94 ars