Stuart Robertson
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Hey, I have just started learning the Perl programming language and am looking for some help.
So far, I have created a pretty basic Perl script designed to count character, word and lines in a text document. However, when I go to run this program, I can't. I am in a MD-DOS window and am in the Perl directory. When I type the command for the program to run (C:\Perl> Perl Counter1.pl), the only thing which happens is that the line on which you type in the MD-DOS window drops down one. When it does this, I can no longer type in the window and mean I have to restart it, and when I restart it and repeat the commands I get the same results.
If someone assist me with this and tell me where I am going wrong, it would be much appreciated.
Regards,
- Stuart
So far, I have created a pretty basic Perl script designed to count character, word and lines in a text document. However, when I go to run this program, I can't. I am in a MD-DOS window and am in the Perl directory. When I type the command for the program to run (C:\Perl> Perl Counter1.pl), the only thing which happens is that the line on which you type in the MD-DOS window drops down one. When it does this, I can no longer type in the window and mean I have to restart it, and when I restart it and repeat the commands I get the same results.
If someone assist me with this and tell me where I am going wrong, it would be much appreciated.
Regards,
- Stuart