> I'm new to perl too, but I think I can help.
Sometimes a dangerous thought... ;>
> As far as I can tell, perlscript is embeded
> right into an HTML file the same way you
> do VBScript or JavaScript
If you have a web server set up appropriately
to allow this, this is true.
There are multiple
This is covered on page 2 of the first edition; I find
it hard to believe it isn't also covered right at the
beginning of the second edition.
As it says in the first, start by typing the following
at a shell prompt:
perl
If you get "not found", then you don't have perl
installed (at least n
I'm new to perl too, but I think I can help. As far as I can tell,
perlscript is embeded right into an HTML file the same way you do VBScript
or JavaScript, so your file would have the regular *.html extention. If on
the other hand, you are using a full fledged perl program, you can run it
from