note aitap <p><blockquote>I typed and saved the code as a ".pl" file.</blockquote> It looks like you saved the file using a word processor as formatted text (RTF), while Perl programs should be written as plain text (*.txt) files.</p> <p>Do you see your code when you enter `cat /Users/patnonadmin/Desktop/hello#1.pl` (without quotes) in the terminal, or do you see something else?</p> <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-980564"> Sorry if my advice was wrong. </div></div> 1015225 1015225