in reply to Help with Hello World Program (was: I lower my head in awe and shame... mainly shame.)

well, one problem is that you should be using a backlash instead of a slash in the print statement:
print "Hello World\n";
although it should still print something, you just won't have a newline at the end (it will appear in front of your shell prompt).
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Re: Re: I lower my head in awe and shame... mainly shame.
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 11, 2002 at 18:00 UTC
    Ummm... the backslash was it. OK, my career in debugging is over {Head lowered to ankles in shame, and appreciation of non-flames is quite high} Thanks for tolerance, Paul
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      Hmmm... now in scanning the other answers, I guess I AM wondering why it didn't print: "Hello World/n" {error and all}, or prepend my prompt with something. It's not ABSOLUTELY vital I know the answer to this, but now just curious... trying to rebuild debugging career and all. Thx, paul P.S. You probably WERE NEVER THIS dumb!
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        It wouldn't have generated an error*, but you may be Suffering from Buffering?. To find out, change your code to the following: 
        #!/usr/bin/perl
$|++;
print "Hello World/n";

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        --Jim

        Update1: Added the "/" to the shebang. Note that executing this program will look something like the following since your newline is mangled: 

        prompt> helloworld.pl
Hello World/nprompt>

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        Update2: * provided you ran your program from the root (/) directory, the relative path would've worked if the rest (usr/bin/perl) was correct.

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