in reply to Perl on Windows 98...?

If you haven't already check out and install activeperl for windows from activestate It automatically installs tons of excellent doc. All you really need to create your code is notepad. Just save the files with a .pl extension and it will automatically associate them with the perl interpreter. Don't know what else to tell you it really isn't that difficult, although I do all of my perl dev on SCO Unix or Linux. Hope this helps. -Aseidas

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Re: Re: Perl on Windows 98...?
by thunders (Priest) on Jul 18, 2002 at 01:38 UTC

    all you need is notepad,but a really cool notepad replacement is editplus It has syntax highlighting for perl built in, regex-enabled searching, tabbed file windows, and lots more. another more powerful (but not so simple to use) editor is vim there are dozens of other great editors for windows, notepad is not one of them. I know the first thing I download on a new pc (after Perl) is a "real" text editor.

    I recommend getting a good book on perl. Assuming you have a basic understanding of programming, the other languages you list suggest this, try Learning Perl it is an excellent intro to Perl.

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