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in reply to Perl for Windows

At the command prompt, type: perl <scriptname>

this is assuming the path to perl is in your path. Otherwise, you might also try: C:\Perl\bin\perl <scriptname> (That works for ActiveState Perl anyway)

If the .pl extension is associated with the Perl binary, you can also double-click on the script in Explorer.