Easy script question

sgardner has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I recently got portable Strawberry perl on my system, and was trying to test it out with a very simple script:

!# perl -w
use strict;


my $myVariable="hello, world";
print $myVariable;
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If I use the Use strict, I get ""use" not allowed in expression at line 2" If I take strict out, I receive a "Can't modify not in scalar assignment". I'm really not sure why this doesn't work.

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Re: Easy script question by pryrt (Abbot) on Mar 01, 2018 at 17:21 UTC
`!#perl -w` your shebang was inverted. should be `#!perl -w`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Easy script question by sgardner (Initiate) on Mar 01, 2018 at 17:30 UTC
Thank you!	[reply]
Re^3: Easy script question by Anonymous Monk on Mar 01, 2018 at 21:11 UTC
Oh, I'm so glad to know that I'm not the only person in this world who has actually done that. ("D'oh!")	[reply]
Re: Easy script question by Laurent_R (Canon) on Mar 01, 2018 at 17:47 UTC
In addition to your error pointed out by pryrt, I would suggest that it probably does not make very much sense to have a shebang line with Windows. Except, of course, that it enables you to use the `-w` flag. But it is probably better to use the `use warnings` pragma and to start your program with: `use strict; use warnings;` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Easy script question by haukex (Archbishop) on Mar 01, 2018 at 20:50 UTC
But it is probably better to use the `use warnings` pragma Very true in general, not just in Windows: What's wrong with -w and `$^W`	[reply] [d/l] [select]