On Sun, 2 May 2004 at 15:00, Charlie davis opined: Cd:But when I type what it says in the book I am getting an error Cd:messagethat states that I have entered a bad command or filename what I Cd:am entering is c:\> perl -w -e "print \ "Hello, World!\n\";" And then I Cd:get the error message. Cd: Cd:I must be doing something wrong but I can not figure out what it is.
what is the error message? posting that always helps us help you. from a casual glance, i'd say the 1st escaping backslash should not have a space after it (you want to escape the double quote, not the space). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>