Installing Perl on Windows XP

[Ethen]

Hi Monks,

I am new to Perl. I have tried installing Perl on my machine that is running on windows XP. I downloaded ActivePerl for Windows XP (WIndows MSI package) from ActiveState. Then I installed Perl Express (Editor). Both the downloads were successfull. Now when I try to write a small script and Run it, it shows the output of only that script in which I am not usng the "Diamond operator <>".......e.g

print "Enter one number: ";
$a = <>;
print "Enter another number: ";
$b = <>;
$c = $a + $b;
print "$c";

Now When I run this......the output comes as.....

"Enter one number: "

When I try to enter some number, it do nothing........... Please assist......

Edit: g0n - code tags and formatting

[inman]

Try running this from a command line rather than the editor. The diamond operator is shorthand for standard input which your editor may treat differently. Your script is fine although you should get into the habit of adding "use strict;" to enforce various checking routines.

[Ethen]

Ok...now I have written my script in notepad and saved it as "proj.pl". Now how to run it in command prompt? Please bear with me for my small queries as I am new to this.....but ur answers are really giving me a gud picture of it. Thanks Ethen

[GrandFather]

For a normal ActiveState install you should be able to run your Perl application by simply typing the filename on the command line and pressing enter. If that doesn't do it for you then you could try:

c:\perl\bin\perl.exe proj.pl

which runs the Perl interpreter from the default location used by the ActiveState install.

[Gavin]

Welcome to the Monastery Ethen

As GrandFather has already suggested
"you should be able to run your Perl application by simply typing the filename on the command line"

You may find it useful when first learning to create a shortcut to the copy cmd.exe into the Perl bin.

Then all that is needed is to type the file name "proj.pl" at the command prompt.

[ww]

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