[immsav]

I'm trying to learn Perl, but I can't get this simple script to work:

<script>
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

print "Hello World";
</script>

When I save it to my desktop as test.pl and try to run it from the terminal by typing, "perl test.pl", I get nothing. Changing the file permissions doesn't help, either.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Jacob

[Paul McCann]

Originally posted by immsav:

Any ideas?

Maybe you've saved the script with old-style mac line endings? Perl on OSX requires line feeds as line endings, so check that your text editor is saving things using "unix line endings" and you should be fine.

(You can check that perl is working fine using the one line equivalent of what you posted. Open a terminal window and enter

perl -e 'print "Hello world\n" '

Good luck,
Paul

[kman42]

Originally posted by immsav:
I'm trying to learn Perl, but I can't get this simple script to work:

<script>
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

print "Hello World";
</script>

When I save it to my desktop as test.pl and try to run it from the terminal by typing, "perl test.pl", I get nothing. Changing the file permissions doesn't help, either.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Jacob

Sorry, dude. I just cut/paste your script and it worked fine after a chmod. After all, it should. It has correct syntax. Are you missing perl for some reason?

kman

[immsav]

It was the Unix line-endings; it works now. Thanks.

-JLP