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[CodingIsFun]

Hi all experts:

I have been designated PERL learner in my group and have installed the ActivePerl-5.8.8.817-MSWin32-x86-257965.msi.

I am trying to run my first hello world program. How do I do this? I tried $ ./hello from the command line and received the following error:

$ is not recognized as an internal or external command.

thanks in advance...

 

[tchatzi]

first of all the [red]./hello[/red] is a *nix way of running executable files
second the [red]$[/red] in the begining is the command prompt of that particular *nix (something like [red]c:\>[/red] in windows)

So if you want to run your perl scripts on windows you type
[blue]c:\> my_script_name.pl[/blue]
all your scripts should have the .pl at the end.

If you don't want to attach that extension to your script name then you can run it as
[blue]c:\> perl my_script_name[/blue]


``The wise man doesn't give the right answers,
he poses the right questions.''
TIMTOWTDI

 

[CodingIsFun]

thank you

c:\ perl <name>


works.