ever use an IDE?

[PHISH-PHREAK]

I think a video would be a good idea, just screen capture and use a mic or a jim.

[ApprenticePhreak]

Strawberry Perl is awesome.  Nod, I can help you, seriously.  My Perl book is an extremeeeeely easy paper to go by, that's why I made it.  It only covers intro basics and gives lots of analogies and such.  Plus, I can answer any questions you have too! 

Ironically enough, yeah, he speaks the truth on his papers.

trevelyn is better than all of us.

 

[Nod]

I can't even figure out how to use strawberry. G-d I'm fucking lame.

[trevelyn]

Well, DOS doesn't allow you to use Perl "one-liners" which are one line programs, so I can't think of a good example for you to do.  Also, I just found out the hard way, that Windows 7 dropped the program "EDIT"  Yeah, why would Windows users need a text editor to use in DOS anyways, right? Fucking Microsoft, what a bunch of idiots.

You will have to open notepad.

in notepad, type out:

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print "Hello World!\n";
exit;
And hit "File" + "Save As" and then save it on your Desktop as "perl.txt"

Now, hit the WINDOWS button and the R button on your keyboard at the same time.  This should open the Run dialog box, for any version of Windows.  type out "CMD" then a command prompt will start.  in that DOS window, type:

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cd Desktop
Then

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perl perl.txt
And viola! You have written your first Perl program that ran the print() function!

P.S.
If you were running Linux, all you would have to do is open Terminal and type:

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perl -e 'print "Hello World!\n";'
to get the same result.  Hehe, but Windows is much easier to use than Linux, right?

[Nod]

So, what your saying is that I shouldn't have let notepad++ name it a .pl file?

[Godot]

You can do Perl can do one-liners in Windows. The only reason your example won't work is that Windows' CMD doesn't handle single quotes like the Linux shells. This works for me with Strawberry Perl on Windows Vista:

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perl -e "print \"Hello World!\n\";"
Of course, it looks a lot worse like this, but it works.

[trevelyn]

You can do Perl can do one-liners in Windows. The only reason your example won't work is that Windows' CMD doesn't handle single quotes like the Linux shells. This works for me with Strawberry Perl on Windows Vista:

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perl -e "print \"Hello World!\n\";"
Of course, it looks a lot worse like this, but it works.

haha! That's awesome!  You spent hours trying to figure that out didn you?