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Perl: Program: Simple: Run: How to run a 'hello world' program from the MSDOS command line?

Sep 25th, 2004 09:01
Knud van Eeden,

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--- Knud van Eeden --- 25 September 2004 - 05:48 pm ------------------

Perl: Program: Simple: Run: How to run a 'hello world' program from 
the MSDOS command line?

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Steps: Overview:

 1. -Save the following text in a file
     (e.g. as 'c:\temp\myhelloworld.pl')

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print "Hello world from ActivePerl";
print "<BR>";
print "How do you do!";
print "<BR>";
print "My name is Knud!";

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 2. -Goto the directory of your Perl executable

e.g.

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c:

cd c:\perl\bin

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 3. -Run your program by writing the filename as a parameter
     of your perl.exe program

in general:

 <your perl executable> <your perl filename>

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e.g.

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 perl.exe c:\temp\myhelloworld.pl

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 4. -That will show e.g. as output:

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Hello world from ActivePerl<BR>How do you do!<BR>My name is Knud!

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Tested successfully on Microsoft Windows XP Professional, running 
Active Perl.

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Internet: see also:

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