Suddenly, part 3 -- it's working!!

2014-08-06 Thread ESChamp
I installed strawberry perl, edited out all my feeble attempts at troubleshooting, and -- voila! --, it's working. Thanks for all your help and encouragement. At my age, I'll never be a perl programmer and having to take Neurontin doesn't help my mental accuity, but getting through this makes me

Re: What's wrong with this program?

2014-08-06 Thread Jim Gibson
On Aug 6, 2014, at 10:55 AM, ESChamp wrote: > The program begins > > #!/usr/bin/perl You really should add these two lines: use strict; use warnings; here and correct the mistakes they reveal. > use Tie::File; > use File::Copy 'copy'; > use File::Spec; > > my $copy="00-copy.htm"; >

What's wrong with this program?

2014-08-06 Thread ESChamp
The program begins #!/usr/bin/perl use Tie::File; use File::Copy 'copy'; use File::Spec; my $copy="00-copy.htm"; my $recapfile="00recap.txt"; my $htmfile="00.htm"; my $ct; tie my @bfile, 'Tie::File', $recapfile or die "cannot tie recapfile and bfile $!"; tie my @hfile, 'Tie::File',

Re: Which perl for Windows?

2014-08-06 Thread Rob Dixon
On 06/08/2014 18:13, Andy Bach wrote: On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 9:50 PM, Rob Dixon mailto:rob.di...@gmx.com>> wrote: DWIM Perl has a version for Microsoft Windows that contains Padre, the Perl IDE and all the CPAN modules you'll ever need. So it's nice that there's a working

Re: Which perl for Windows?

2014-08-06 Thread ESChamp
ESChamp wrote on 8/5/2014 5:20 PM: > Which perl should I (an occaisonal perl user, a rare perl programmer) > use? I see > > cygwin > strawberry perl > activestate perl > dwim perl Thank you. I downloaded and installed the latest strawberry. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.

Re: Which perl for Windows?

2014-08-06 Thread Andy Bach
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 9:50 PM, Rob Dixon wrote: > DWIM Perl has a version for Microsoft Windows that contains Padre, >> the Perl IDE and all the CPAN modules you'll ever need. >> > > So it's nice that there's a working IDE I've have heard lots of good things about Padre as a Perl IDE which can