[Chicago-talk] Newbie problem: Cannot get Hello World to run!
Steven Lembark
lembark at wrkhors.com
Sun Jan 18 23:51:42 CST 2004
-- Sachin Karol <skarol1 at uic.edu>
> Hello,
> Hope the Perl gurus can help me with a typical newbie
> (I think!!) problem.
>
> After many hassles, I managed to load Suse 9 on my laptop.
> I am now trying to learn Perl and am using the famed " Learning
> Perl" from OReilly.
>
> This is what my problem is:
>
> I am trying to run the basic Hello World problem :-
>
># !/usr/bin/perl -w
> print ("Hello, world!\n");
This may be more of a *NIX question than perl. Make
sure you're running the local copy of "Hello" first.
This is a somewhat overused name that may be in an
example somewhere else on your path. Hopefully you
don't have "." on the path anywhere...
./Hello;
would be one first guess.
You can also try the debugger to see what syntax should
work (good for following the tutorials also):
$ perl -d -e 42;
> print "Hello, world!\n"
should get you the output you are looking for. If that
blows up you can check the syntax before worrying about
#! code and shell issues.
After that works, edit the file, insert the lines, and
then double-check the name with "whereis name" (e.g.,
"whereis Hello"). If that turns up nothing then change
the mods to something like 0755 and run it via ./Hello.
At that point, given what you've shown, it seems likely
to work (since it did here on a SuSE box).
enjoi
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