Re: [CGI] RE: newbie need help

2001-05-26 Thread Hendrik Van Belleghem
> Under UNIX (the sensible option) ;) You simply mark the file executable > and thats it. On UNIX you also need the shebang... #!/usr/bin/perl or wherever perl is located... This actually goes for all shell scripts... -- Greetz Hendrik ... Quidquid perl dictum sit, altum viditur.

Re: [CGI] RE: newbie need help

2001-05-26 Thread Redvers Davies
> There's one thing i've always wanted to understand...Sometimes the perl > program ends with .pl and sometimes .cgimaybe i'm a very bad programmer Perl doesn't care what the extension is. A lot of perl programmers use .pl and .cgi because they want to. This also has the advantage that webm

Re: [CGI] RE: newbie need help

2001-05-26 Thread Jeff Pinyan
On May 26, Manoj Jacob said: >I've done some programming in perl mainly for web oriented stuff >There's one thing i've always wanted to understand...Sometimes the perl >program ends with .pl and sometimes .cgimaybe i'm a very bad programmer >and i'm really dumb that i've not understood th

Re: newbie need help

2001-05-26 Thread Hendrik Van Belleghem
> ok, i am a newbie at perl, i know this is going to be a very stupid > question, but please just help me out then do the "hahaha", ok? :) > > well, i want to learn perl, but i just kwon it is for web pages, how do i > start writing(learning) perl? what do i need to do that? 1) read perl code 2)

Re: newbie need help

2001-05-26 Thread Lucy
> ok, i am a newbie at perl, i know this is going to be a very stupid > question, but please just help me out then do the "hahaha", ok? :) > > well, i want to learn perl, but i just kwon it is for web pages, how do i > start writing(learning) perl? what do i need to do that? Hiya, there are lot

Re: newbie need help

2001-05-26 Thread Collin Rogowski
> well, i want to learn perl, but i just kwon it is for web pages, how do i > start writing(learning) perl? what do i need to do that? If you know how to program in any other language see 1, otherwise see 2. 1. Just think up a program you would like to have and start writing it in Perl. I w

newbie need help

2001-05-26 Thread Foxpro
ok, i am a newbie at perl, i know this is going to be a very stupid question, but please just help me out then do the "hahaha", ok? :) well, i want to learn perl, but i just kwon it is for web pages, how do i start writing(learning) perl? what do i need to do that? please, any kind of input is w