PERL CGI Beginners - starting perl

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starting perl

Charlie Davis

2004-05-22, 11:32 am

From what I can remember I am running MSDOS version 6.0 (I thank) and the version of perl is perl 5.8

But when I type what it says in the book I am getting an error messagethat states that I have entered a bad command or filename
what I am entering is c:\> perl -w -e "print \ "Hello, World!\n\";"
And then I get the error message.

I must be doing something wrong but I can not figure out what it is.

Fliptop

2004-05-22, 11:32 am

On Sun, 2 May 2004 at 15:00, Charlie davis opined:

Cd:But when I type what it says in the book I am getting an error
Cd:messagethat states that I have entered a bad command or filename what I
Cd:am entering is c:\> perl -w -e "print \ "Hello, World!\n\";" And then I
Cd:get the error message.
Cd:
Cd:I must be doing something wrong but I can not figure out what it is.

what is the error message? posting that always helps us help you.

from a casual glance, i'd say the 1st escaping backslash should not have a
space after it (you want to escape the double quote, not the space).

jon@hogue.org

2004-05-22, 11:32 am

> from a casual glance, i'd say the 1st escaping backslash should not have a
> space after it (you want to escape the double quote, not the space).
>
try this instead. a little easier to read, and less error prone.

c:\> perl -w -e "print qq( Hello, World!\n ); "

Thomas S. Dixon

2004-05-22, 11:32 am

Sounds to me like your OS doesn't know where the perl executable is. Try
running with c:\perl\bin\perl instead of just perl.

-tommy

Charlie davis wrote:

> From what I can remember I am running MSDOS version 6.0 (I thank) and the version of perl is perl 5.8
>
> But when I type what it says in the book I am getting an error messagethat states that I have entered a bad command or filename
> what I am entering is c:\> perl -w -e "print \ "Hello, World!\n\";"
> And then I get the error message.
>
> I must be doing something wrong but I can not figure out what it is.

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