perl on Windows 2000

[perlisfun]

It does not work when i type 'perl -e 'print "xxx\n";' on DOS console. But it works when runing 'perl t.pl' (put same code into t.pl file. Thanks for any help. Error message such as: Can't find string terminator "'" anywhere before EOF at -e line 1.

[perlplexer]

On Windows you need to use " instead of '

Windows : perl -e "print 'howdy!'"
UNIX : perl -e 'print "howdy!"'

--perlplexer

[Dog and Pony]

In DOS you need to exchange the single quotes with double quotes, like so:

perl -e "print \"xxx\n\";"

As you can see, this also means that you need to escape double quotes inside your code with backslashes if you want to use them. Or use single quotes if you don't need the interpolation.

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