Andy Bach wrote: > > That one gets a different error on winx You mean cmd.exe - not win32. I run tcsh on Win32 with no such problem.
> C:\Documents and Settings\andy>perl -e '$hi = qq(Hello world.\n); print $hi' > Can't find string terminator "'" anywhere before EOF at -e line 1. > > I think the semicolon acts as a line ending or comment, maybe? But this > is the sort of error that made me give up on winx cmd lines scripting. Again - it's all about what shell you use. Try a native port of tcsh or bash - you'll seldom use cmd.exe again. _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
