Single quotations? Those are for Unix/Linux perl only For windows we have to stick to double qoutation marks --well that's what I remmeber from quigley's book (Perl by example)
:o) -----Original Message----- From: renard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2005 2:15 PM To: Perl Beginners List Cc: Gomez, Juan Subject: Re: Executing perl code on the command line Hi, perl -e "print qq(Hello\n)" works fine for me. What does not work is : perl -e 'print qq(Hello\n)' ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gomez, Juan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "renard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Perl Beginners List" <beginners@perl.org> Cc: "Bakken, Luke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2005 10:40 AM Subject: RE: Executing perl code on the command line > Hi !!! > > For me the line work here: > > C:\>perl -e "print qq(Hello\n)" > Hello > > C:\>perl -e"print qq(Hello\n)" > Hello > > Can it be that you type it wrong? > Or check your perl version > > C:\>perl -v > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: renard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2005 9:24 AM > To: Perl Beginners List > Cc: Bakken, Luke; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Executing perl code on the command line > > Thank you. your methods work fine. > > I do wonder ... I have seen and tried command line perl code examples > from this mailing list that did not have quotes for print statements. > > On my computer they did not work.. Is this specific to Windows XP and > ActivePerl? Or was it untested code? > > PS: using single quote around the perl code fails...need to use double > quotes. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bakken, Luke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "renard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Perl Beginners List" > <beginners@perl.org> > Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 10:52 AM > Subject: RE: Executing perl code on the command line > > >> I am unable to execute a statement like -- perl -e '<perl code>' -- >> I always get this response: Can't find string terminator "'" >> anywhere before >> EOF at -e line 1. > > From the command line, use " " to quote your code and qq() or q() as > quotes inside your code: > > c:\>perl -e"print qq(Hello\n)" > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional > commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> > <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
