For a good online tutorial try this http://www.sthomas.net/roberts-perl-tutorial.htm Its well written and easy to follow. Plus it was written for perl users on windows machines.
If you want to shell out a bit of cash, start by getting Learning Perl http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lperl3 This is probably the best book you can get to set you on your way. -----Original Message----- From: Robert Mark White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 August 2003 06:44 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Please don't say RTFM Dear Gentle Readers, Please be gentle with me as this is only my first day trying to learn perl. I am using an online tutorial, however it must be written for *nix and I am trying to use it on win32. man perl does not even work. I have already found some other differences. For example, the tutorial uses single quotes and to get anything to work I had to use double quotes. There must be other things that are different also. I tried to use the examples directly in an script that would be useful to me. Maybe I should have tried something a little simplier. Any polite suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Sincerely yours, Robert Mark White The attempted script is below Most of the lines below are directly from the tutorial so.....what! I think at least the "#" remark lines below should be correct! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- ------------ # By RMW # using activeperl v5.8.0 for Win32-x86-multi-tread # Program to add file1 to file2 # examples from http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/Perl/filehandling.html #name the files $file1 = "c:\Program Files\ArGo Software Design\Mail Server\Keyring_ALL"; # Name for file1 $file2 = "c:\PGP\pgp-all.asc"; # Name for file2 open(INFO, ">$file2"); # Open file2 for output @lines = <INFO>; # Read file2 into an array close(INFO, "$file2"); # Close the file2 open(INFO, "<$file1"); # Open file1 for input print <INFO> = @lines; # Print the array into file1 close(INFO, "$file1"); # Close the file1 --- Outgoing mail is certified virus free by AVG Anti-Virus System Version 6 Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.509 / Virus Database: 306 - Release Date: 8/12/2003 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
