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| name = Learning Perl, 6th Edition
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| author = Randal L. Schwartz, brian d foy, Tom Phoenix
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| publisher = O'Reilly Media
| pub_date = June 2011
| media_type = Print, Ebook
| pages = 390
| isbn = 978-1-4493-0358-7 (print), 978-1-4493-0458-4 (ebook)
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'''''Learning Perl''''', also known as the ''llama book'',<ref>{{cite book|last=Castro|first=Elizabeth|year=2001|publisher=[[Peachpit Press]]|title=Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web|page=314|isbn=978-0-201-73568-0|accessdate=June 23, 2011|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=PodQAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Learning+Perl%22+schwartz&dq=%22Learning+Perl%22+schwartz}}</ref> is a tutorial book for the [[Perl 5]] programming language, and is published by [[O'Reilly Media]]. It was authored solely by [[Randal L. Schwartz]] in its first edition (1993). The second (1997) edition was coauthored with Tom Christiansen and the third (2001) edition was coauthored with Tom Phoenix. The fourth (2005), fifth (2008) and sixth (2011) editions were written by Schwartz, Phoenix, and [[brian d foy]]. According to the 5th edition of the book, previous editions have sold more than 500,000 copies.<ref>Learning Perl, 5th ed., p. 1</ref>