.plx is not recognized

[jvierra]

I am working through a tutorial of beginning Perl, however when I create a simple hello world program and have the file extension as .plx it doesn't read it. If I change the extension to .pl it does. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated as I am a complete newbie.

[roboticus]

jvierra:

If you're running on Windows, you'll need to tell it that .plx is a perl program--i.e., you associate the extension with a program. I don't recall how to do it, but if you copy the .pl entry it should work. I'd check the windows explorer options, or google for "file association" you should find it easily enough.

Update: Grammatical fix.

...roboticus

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[Anonymous Monk]

I am working through a tutorial of beginning Perl..

Which one?

See Re^8: redirection problem (ftype/assoc/plx hotfix)