Welcome to Perl!

Since you did not specify an OS I am assuming that you are on a windows machine. The best way to install Perl on a windows box IMHO is to use Activestate Perl. Go to http://www.activestate.com and download the free version. It installs via installshield or whatever. Then go to start, run, cmd, and cd to the Perl directory. There will be a bunch of docs in there to get you started. Fire up PPM to install any additional packages. If you are using anykind of *nix system it is probably already installed - type perl -v to check if it is there. cheers - Jeffery