*If I were beginning with Perl, I certainly would not practise in the console but get an editor, such as SciTE* Yes, I am.
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 3:04 PM, John Delacour <johndelac...@gmail.com>wrote: > On 15 January 2011 07:52, Emeka <emekami...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > # perl -le '$str = "the cat sat on the mat";print substr( $str, 4, -4 )' > > Can't find string terminator "'" anywhere before EOF at -e line 1. > > > > rmicro@RMICRO-PC C:\Program Files\xampp > > # > > > > It failed to work for me. Why? > > Because you can't use single quotes for the script-string in Windows > cmd.exe. If you must work in the command line, then you can either > escape all your double quotes within the string or use > qq~double-quoted string~ , where "~" can be any ascii character that > is not in the string itself. > > perl -le "$str = qq~the cat sat on the mat~; print substr( $str, 4, -4 )" > > If I were beginning with Perl, I certainly would not practise in the > console but get an editor, such as SciTE > > <http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html> > > and run the scripts from the editor (using F5) in the case of SciTE. > > JD > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > http://learn.perl.org/ > > > -- *Satajanus Nig. Ltd *
