PERL and Windows NT

[andrewcarter]

A lot of tutorials I'm reading on PERL is giving me instructions using a UNIX server. Is there one for Windows NT and that is simple and straight to the point?

Thanks,
Stephen

 

[Firemyst]

From my experience, using Active State's Active Perl, unless you use specific Unix perl functions, most of what you read/write is good on Windows as well.

The biggest difference is that on Windows, you hardly ever have to use the:
#!/usr/loca/bin/perl
as the first line if you're running IIS.

Here's an example site:

http://www.davelozinski.com/scripts

If you notice, he has his perl (and other scripts) that work on both platforms without any sort of modifications.

 

[raklet]

I very first learned to use Perl on Win32. I downloaded ActiveState's distribution and used "Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21 days" as my guide. The book was written for the Unix platform, but there was very little I had to change to make the same examples work on Win32. Other than being written for Unix, I would say that Sams is the most simple and straight to the point book I have ever read on the subject. I have read several more books on Perl after reading Sams, including Oreilly's "Learning Perl on Win32", but none of them come close to teaching the language to a beginner as well as Sams - IMO.