On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 14:52, Bryan R Harris<bryan_r_har...@raytheon.com> wrote: snip > I didn't change anything, actually -- it never printed the "8/2 Updated > database" string. It prompted with the "Enter a date and note:", I typed > "Uh." and that was it. Maybe my version of perl doesn't have a good > Term::Readline::Perl? How do I find out? I'm on OS X 10.5, which is still > at perl 5.8.8. snip
Hmm, it looks like Term::ReadLine::Perl needs to be installed. You can get it on CPAN: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Term-ReadLine-Perl snip >> A method is a subroutine called on an object: >> >> $obj->method(); > > I've never used objects -- do I need to understand them to use > Term::Readline? snip Not really, you just need to know that you create an object by saying my $obj = Class->new(some arguments); and that you call functions on an object by saying $obj->function_name(some arguments); -- Chas. Owens wonkden.net The most important skill a programmer can have is the ability to read. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
