[Omaha.pm] Perl question

[Wendy Moroz]

Ahhhh....thank you Nicholas!  THAT'S what I was doing wrong.......I thought
I needed to run the command inside of VIM.  Thanks so much!!

2010/3/19 Nicholas Nisi <nicknisi at gmail.com>

> You shouldn't be trying to get it to print from inside VIM. VIM is used to
> edit the file. Then, you try running it from the command line (where you
> typed "VIM" into) using the command "perl assignment_6" (without quotes). If
> your program is correct, you will see "Hello World" appear below.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nicholas J. Nisi
> nicknisi at gmail.com
> nicknisi at gwu.edu
>
>
>
> 2010/3/19 Wendy Moroz <wmoroz18 at gmail.com>
>
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Andy Lester => andy at petdance.com => www.theworkinggeek.com =>
>>> AIM:petdance
>>>
>>>
>>>
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