Re: Question from perl newbie

Roy Jaffray wrote:
am a newbie as well .. with exactly the same problem.

____helloworld.pl________________________________

I then double clicked on the name and got the dos flicker .. but no file was
created.

Whenever clicking does not work, you should try running it from
the command line.

Start -> Run -> cmd
C:\> perl helloworld.pl

Fix the problems there first.
-Joe
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