On Mar 19, 2010, at 1:12 AM, Wendy Moroz wrote:
> Hi - this is my first time asking a question, so I am not sure if I'm doing this right.
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> I am a new Perl user - this is my very first attempt at trying to run a Perl command. It is for my class, and I really need some help.
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> I have the file chmod'ed so I am able to execute commands. I also have the shebang, strict, and warnings lines entered and everything is typed correctly.
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> I tried the "Hello World" line by entering this: print "hello world. \n"
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> When I key that in, nothing happens. This seems like an incredibly easy command, yet for the life of me I can't figure out what am I doing wrong?? When you ask Perl to output (print) something, how/where is it supposed to show up?