Shebang not working

I'm having trouble launching a Perl script with the shebang operator.
OS is SuSE 9.2 Professional. So far, I haven't had any helpful
insights at comp.os.linux.suse, and hope this isn't too far from Perl
to post here.

Complete Perl script:

#! /usr/bin/perl

print "Hello, World\n";

This is contained in a file of 3 lines, left-justified, created with
vi. It is saved with a directory entry of

-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 Dec 31 15:32 hworld.pl

In the /usr/bin directory, I find the following entry

-rwxr-wr-w 3 root root 1160321 Oct 2 2004 perl

which leads me to believe that permissions are OK.

Now, here is how things work:

#perl hworld.pl
Hello, World
#hworld.pl
bash: hworld.pl: command not found
#./hworld.pl
bash: ./hworld.pl: /usr/bin/perl: bad interpreter: Permission denied
# ./hworld.pl
bash: ./hworld.pl: /usr/bin/perl: bad interpreter: Permission denied
#. hworld
bash: hworld: No such file or directory
#. hworld.pl
bash: print: command not found
#

>From these I conclude that there is something going wrong with the
shebang line and getting started. Any pointers as to what I need to
change will be appreciated. (Obviously, I need to fix this in order
to use Perl in a CGI environment :)].

Thanks and regards,
Sam


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