startting perl

[Sree]

Hi all,
It would be appreciated if anyone can explain me how to start
writing program (i,e including downloading and installing the perl,how
to run the scripts).

regards
Sree

 

[Andre Wisniewski]

Hi all,
It would be appreciated if anyone can explain me how to start
writing program (i,e including downloading and installing the perl,how
to run the scripts).

Downloading and installing is very simple. Have a look at

http://www.activestate.com/



Andre

 

[Paul Lalli]

Hi all,
It would be appreciated if anyone can explain me how to start
writing program (i,e including downloading and installing the perl,how
to run the scripts).

Depending on your operating system, you may already have Perl installed.
This is especially true if you're running on most any flavor of Unix or
Linux. If you are, you can do a simple test by typing the following in
your shell:
perl -v

If you get output telling you the Perl version number, congratulations,
you have perl. If you get an error message saying perl not found, then
either it's not installed or it's not in the path.

If you do not have perl already installed, there are a few options. You
can build perl yourself from the source files, or you can download a
binary distribution for your system. See http://www.perl.com/download.csp
for links to each.

Once you've gotten perl installed, you will (most likely) also have the
perl documentation installed. This is the best place to get started.
From a command prompt, type:
perldoc perl

The output of this command will tell you several more files you should
read to help you get started. When it tells you, for example, to "start
with perlintro", that means to type the following at your command prompt:
perldoc perlintro


Good luck, welcome to Perl, and don't hesitate to ask for help here when
you get stuck - after reading the FAQ found by typing at your command
prompt:
perldoc perlfaq
(which will lead you to which of perlfaq1 - perlfaq9 you want to read for
your question)

Paul Lalli

 

[Web Surfer]

[This followup was posted to comp.lang.perl.misc]

Hi all,
It would be appreciated if anyone can explain me how to start
writing program (i,e including downloading and installing the perl,how
to run the scripts).

regards
Sree

If you are running some form of UNIX (or Linux, ??, etc...)
you may already have Perl installed. To see if you have Perl installed
on your system you can try the following :

perl -v

(this will cause Perl to display a message indicating its version
information)

If you are using a PC then you can go to http://www.activestate.com
to get a copy of perl that you can download and install onto your PC.

 

[Simon Taylor]

Hello Sree,

Hi all,
It would be appreciated if anyone can explain me how to start

writing program (i,e including downloading and installing the perl,how
to run the scripts).

See Simon Cozen's book, "Beginning Perl", which you can download from
learn.perl.org at:

http://learn.perl.org/library/beginning_perl/

- Simon Taylor

 

[Michele Dondi]

If you are using a PC then you can go to http://www.activestate.com

As someone else said, it's not PC to call win* systems PC...
;-)


Michele