[Omaha.pm] Perl question

Wendy Moroz wmoroz18 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 18 23:20:51 PDT 2010


I am using UNO's Blizzard account.  I have the file saved as "assignment
6".  I then VIM assignment 6, and that is where I am trying to get it to
print.  Is this not correct?   Sorry, I am really confused here.  :(

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 1:15 AM, Andy Lester <andy at petdance.com> wrote:

>
> On Mar 19, 2010, at 1:12 AM, Wendy Moroz wrote:
>
> > Hi - this is my first time asking a question, so I am not sure if I'm
> doing this right.
> >
> > I am a new Perl user - this is my very first attempt at trying to run a
> Perl command.  It is for my class, and I really need some help.
> >
> > I have the file chmod'ed so I am able to execute commands.  I also have
> the shebang, strict, and warnings lines entered and everything is typed
> correctly.
> >
> > I tried the "Hello World" line by entering this:   print "hello world.
> \n"
> >
> > When I key that in, nothing happens.  This seems like an incredibly easy
> command, yet for the life of me I can't figure out what am I doing wrong??
>  When you ask Perl to output (print) something, how/where is it supposed to
> show up?
>
> You have it keyed in where?  Do you have all this saved in a file?  What's
> the file called?
>
> You want to save all this in a file called, for example, "hello.pl".
>  Then, you run it by running "perl hello.pl".  What OS are you on?
>
> xoa
>
>
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