Hello! I am new to Perl programming so please, bare with me. I have been
working on Perl for a month now and I'm just getting started on regular
expression. Anyway, learning Perl is not my problem. My problem, is getting
my Perl scripts to run on my PC. For the past month I have been running
MacPerl on my Macintosh Computer, which doesn't deal with command lines
(Bless Apple). But the reality is that I have to learn how to run Perl on
both systems and eventually Unix also. For now though,considering that I just
spent $1500 on this PC I would just like to get my scripts going on it. I
created my scripts with a text editor and saved them with the .pl extension;
I installed PERL version 5.2.2 (APi522e.exe) and followed all the
installation instructions; but, I can't seem to run my scripts. Whenever I
try to open my script from the command line (the infamous "Hello, World"
script), I can see hello world! on my screen for 1 second and then my Perl
inturpreter suddenly disappears off of my screen; also, when I try to close
the Perl inturpreter I keep getting an error message saying that I am not
using the proper method of exiting the program. I know that I sound pretty
dumb, but I have three books on PERL (The Camel,SAMS TYP in 21days and,
Perl,CGI,and Javascript complete) and none of these seem to cover (in
English) how to actually get started runninng your scripts. Whats going on?
Did I install the wrong version of PERL? am I typing the wrong commands on
the command line?
Here are some specs on my setup:
I am running Microsoft Windows Me, operating system.
I use Edit Revolution 2 as my text editor.
I installed PERL version 5.2.2 (APi522e.exe)
I have a 750mhz processor.
I have 256mb of RAM.
Please Help! Thanks!
