How to install and use Perl?

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I have a book called, Learning Perl, or the "lama book" and am trying to learn to program and write small programs. This is the first language I've ever tried to learn and I have no prior knowledge of programming at all. I recently downloaded perl-5.10.0 from perl.com along with ConTEXT to write the codes. I however have no idea how to install perl and how to run the written codes. I can't even get the simple hello world code to work. I don't know how to turn the ConTEXT file into a program and run it like so. I also don't know how to install perl from the perl-5.10.0 file which just gives me a bunch of executable files and other folders.

I'm completely lost and would appreciate the help. Thanks

r100000 · Accepted Answer

If you are on Windows download and install from 
http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/

Then create a file with extension ".pl" .. example Hello.pl
type in 
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Hello World.&#92;n";

and run it in cmd prompt by typing Hello.pl

Hope this helps and enjoy coding ... for more info go to http://www.tizag.com/perlT/perlfirstscript.php

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