This is the errata file for 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 xxii    get examples and quit are user input and   
             should be   written in bold type

page xxii    get examples     should be     get examples.tar.Z

page xxii    Follow instructions     should be

             zcat examples.tar.Z | tar xf-           xof- if system V

page 15      0} else {        should be    } else {

page 15      Regex footnote s/(\S).*/\L$1/   should be  /(\S*).*/\L$1/

page 18,20   $original_name   should be    $name

page 25      $password[5];    should be    $password[6];

page 25      "The sixth item of the @password array (subscript 5)..."

             should be

             "The seventh item of the @password array (subscript 6)..."

page 25,32   Hello, $original_name  should be   Hello, $name

page 36      sentence in the second paragraph that reads: "(Data that is 
             read from or written to files is not treated similarly, but 
             not identically.)"   should be  "(Data that is read from or
             written to files is treated similarly, but not identically.)"

page 37      FF octal         should be    FF hex

page 41      greater than or equal to gt    should be   ge

page 43      2 ** 3 ** 4 # 2 ** (3 ** 4), or 2 ** 12, or 4096
 
             should be 

             2 ** 3 ** 4 # 2 ** (3 ** 4), or 2 ** 81, or approx 2.41e24
 
page 57      $fred[1] +=4; #add 4 to the third element 
          
             should be

             $fred[1] +=4; #add 4 to the second element

page 62      $all = "Now for @fred[@fred[4,5]]"; # same thing

             should be

             $all = "Now for @fred[@fred[4,5]] here!"; # same thing

page 76      force %fred empty     should be     force %lastname empty

page 76      #keep looping until we have less than 10 elements

             should be

             #keep looping while we have less than 10 elements

page 90      /\b+\b/     should be     /\b\+\b/

page 90      "/fred\b/; matches fred, but not freed"

             should be

             "/fred\b/; matches fred"

page 94      "I'll show you in the 'Substitutions section, below,
             how to alter the string so that regular expression
             pattern matching characters get turned off."

             should be  deleted
page 95      2nd paragraph, "The result is a list of values from $1 ..."
 
             should be

             2nd paragraph, "The result is a list of values that would
             have been set for $1"

page 95      3rd paragraph, "In this case, that the $1 and $2 variables 
             are not altered."    should be  "Note that the $1 and $2 
             variables are not altered."

page 118     ....file!"     should be    .....file!\n"

page 120     in the table -O differs from -O     should be   
             -O differs from -o

page 143     close(ETC)  should be  closedir(ETC)  in two places

page 152     time + 20*60*60   should be   time+20*60

page 179     @keys = sort {........} keys %login should be
             @keys = sort {........} keys %home

page 181     ($val1,$val2) = unpack("11", "ABCDEFGH");

             should be

             ($val1,$val2) = unpack("11", "abcdefgh");

page 187     .....open...     should be      ......dbmopen...

page 197     The greek letter "pi" is missing inside the parentheses of
	     "First, we give a constant value () to"

page 198     the third line adds the two numbers      should be
             the third line multiplies the two numbers

page 207     , we get $names{"-     should be  , we get $names{"Fred"}

back cover   foreword is misspelled

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 07/13/94 mk