PERL program

[vdubVR6]

Does anyone know what I should download to be able to open a PERL program in desktop/LX??!! I thought it would know right away (at least mandrake did) but it has no clue what program to use. Any comments or sug. thx

 

[MadHaXX()|2]

chances are that you have it on there already.

#!/usr/bin/perl
print 'you have perl installed';

cut and paste that into a text editor and save it as anyname you want (test maybe). make sure that the "#!/usr/bin/perl" are all on the first line of the page.

$ chmod 755 test
$ ./test

if it does this:

$ ./test
you have perl installed

then its there.
and thats how you run a perl program. go to the directory that the program resides and type ./filename and it will run, or type (from anywhere) the complete path to the perl script (ex: /home/vdubvr6/test ). perl programs are all scripts, they are not compiled code, its just a scripting language (the best one in my opinion)

or www.cpan.org should have the perl binary