Perl people help the newb..

[SinNisTeR]

hi.. i want to know what tool you guys use to compile, create, etc. for perl on a windows platform.. i found Perl Builder 2.0a on download.com and wanted to know if that was anygood for beginers. if not, can you tell me what i should get.


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[VRoOMdesigns]

peArl ? 🙂

 

[Noriaki]

There's no A in Perl.

I like Active Perl for interpretation myself.

You don't compile Perl...it's an interpreted language.
You put your source code in a file called mysource.pl
Then you just say
"perl mysource.pl"

And it runs.
No compile step.


And Creation? What...never heard of notepad?

 

[SinNisTeR]

i knew that, i was checking if anyone was paying attention.. come on.. do you think im THAT dumb


dont answer that..

 

[DaveSimmons]

Another vote for Active Perl, though I mostly use it for checking syntax in scripts before uploading them to a linux server. I spend 90% of my time doing VC++ windows app development so I still make a lot of typos.

Active Perl also installs a nice html Perl docs set you can use to look up functions ("how the @#!@ do I get the ASCII code for a character?" = ord() )

 

[SinNisTeR]

thanks guys, that'll do.