You can download a text editor that will call perl to run your program for you, and will then capture its output and display it alongside. This is comforting if you're used to having an IDE to work with. I'm new to perl, and I'm using UltraEdit, which I found on the outside links page on this site. (Update: I messed up the link, but now it works. b] (Update: thanks to Yves/DeMerphq for his improved UltraEdit Wordfile.)