AustinTanney said: > I'm a total novice and just teaching myself perl. I'm going thru the > "beginning perl" book. One thing about it is that it recommends using the > extension *.plx rather than *.pl. I am using active state 5.8 and it > doesnt seem to recognise the extension. Now realistically this doesnt > matter in the slightest, however, i was just wondering, is the book > slightly outdated and should i just be using *.pl?
Not a stupid question at all. .pl signifies a Perl Library. These are not seen much since Perl 5 introduced Perl Modules (.pm) (the first alpha of Perl 5 was nearly 10 years ago). .plx is the sanctioned extension if you are running on a system that requires an extension to identify the file type, but since Active State don't appear to be following the rules, people are (mis)using .pl. I would suggest sending a bug report to Active State. -- Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
