Go to Start / Run, enter 'CMD' in the Open field and press Enter. This should open up a DOS command prompt. At the prompt, type
perl -v
Let me know what the output is, it SHOULD BE version information for ActivePerl.
To evaluate perl code on the command line, you can do this:
C:\>perl -e "print \"hello world\";"
To run a script, do this:
c:\>perl scriptname.pl
Please note that in order to print a string you need to escape any quotes in the actual code.
Here is a link to a free online book targeted at new Perl developers:
http://learn.perl.org/library/beginning_perl/
If you are looking for an editor / development environment for Perl, you could do far worse than ActiveState Komodo:
http://activestate.com/Products/Komodo/
cheers, JeffG
Randi Stanbery wrote:
I'm new to PERL, I've been self taught on many computer languages and just got Active Perl, I have it installed but have no idea where to go from here. Any suggestions?
Randi
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