I am just beginning to learn Perl so I can handle the forms on my website. The very first thing is to do the "Hello,World" code. I typed and saved the code as a ".pl" file. But when I try to get it to run, I get this long string of mistakes. I am using an iMac OS 10.6.8, which is running perl, v5.10.0 built for darwin-thread-multi-2level. Here's my code:


#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warning;

print "Hello, World!\n";


Here's my error list:


Backslash found where operator expected at /Users/patnonadmin/Desktop/hello#1.pl line 1, near "rtf1\" Backslash found where operator expected at /Users/patnonadmin/Desktop/hello#1.pl line 1, near "ansi\" Backslash found where operator expected at /Users/patnonadmin/Desktop/hello#1.pl line 1, near "ansicpg1252\" Backslash found where operator expected at /Users/patnonadmin/Desktop/hello#1.pl line 1, near "cocoartf1038\" Backslash found where operator expected at /Users/patnonadmin/Desktop/hello#1.pl line 2, near "fonttbl\" Backslash found where operator expected at /Users/patnonadmin/Desktop/hello#1.pl line 2, near "f0\" Backslash found where operator expected at /Users/patnonadmin/Desktop/hello#1.pl line 2, near "fswiss\" Backslash found where operator expected at /Users/patnonadmin/Desktop/hello#1.pl line 3, near "red255\" Backslash found where operator expected at /Users/patnonadmin/Desktop/hello#1.pl line 3, near "green255\" Backslash found where operator expected at /Users/patnonadmin/Desktop/hello#1.pl line 4, near "margl1440\" Backslash found where operator expected at /Users/patnonadmin/Desktop/hello#1.pl line 4, near "margr1440\" Backslash found where operator expected at /Users/patnonadmin/Desktop/hello#1.pl line 4, near "vieww9000\" Backslash found where operator expected at /Users/patnonadmin/Desktop/hello#1.pl line 4, near "viewh8400\" Backslash found where operator expected at /Users/patnonadmin/Desktop/hello#1.pl line 5, near "viewkind0 \" (Missing semicolon on previous line?) Backslash found where operator expected at /Users/patnonadmin/Desktop/hello#1.pl line 5, near "pard\" Backslash found where operator expected at /Users/patnonadmin/Desktop/hello#1.pl line 5, near "tx720\" Backslash found where operator expected at /Users/patnonadmin/Desktop/hello#1.pl line 5, near "tx1440\" Backslash found where operator expected at /Users/patnonadmin/Desktop/hello#1.pl line 5, near "tx2160\" Backslash found where operator expected at /Users/patnonadmin/Desktop/hello#1.pl line 5, near "tx2880\" Backslash found where operator expected at /Users/patnonadmin/Desktop/hello#1.pl line 5, near "tx3600\" Backslash found where operator expected at /Users/patnonadmin/Desktop/hello#1.pl line 5, near "tx4320\" Backslash found where operator expected at /Users/patnonadmin/Desktop/hello#1.pl line 5, near "tx5040\" Backslash found where operator expected at /Users/patnonadmin/Desktop/hello#1.pl line 5, near "tx5760\" Backslash found where operator expected at /Users/patnonadmin/Desktop/hello#1.pl line 5, near "tx6480\" Backslash found where operator expected at /Users/patnonadmin/Desktop/hello#1.pl line 5, near "tx7200\" Backslash found where operator expected at /Users/patnonadmin/Desktop/hello#1.pl line 5, near "tx7920\" Backslash found where operator expected at /Users/patnonadmin/Desktop/hello#1.pl line 5, near "tx8640\" Backslash found where operator expected at /Users/patnonadmin/Desktop/hello#1.pl line 5, near "ql\" Backslash found where operator expected at /Users/patnonadmin/Desktop/hello#1.pl line 5, near "qnatural\" Backslash found where operator expected at /Users/patnonadmin/Desktop/hello#1.pl line 7, near "pardirnatural \" (Missing semicolon on previous line?) Backslash found where operator expected at /Users/patnonadmin/Desktop/hello#1.pl line 7, near "f0\" Backslash found where operator expected at /Users/patnonadmin/Desktop/hello#1.pl line 7, near "fs24 \" (Do you need to predeclare fs24?) syntax error at /Users/patnonadmin/Desktop/hello#1.pl line 1, near "rtf1\" syntax error at /Users/patnonadmin/Desktop/hello#1.pl line 3, near "red255\" syntax error at /Users/patnonadmin/Desktop/hello#1.pl line 4, near "margl1440\" "use" not allowed in expression at /Users/patnonadmin/Desktop/hello#1.pl line 8, at end of line "use" not allowed in expression at /Users/patnonadmin/Desktop/hello#1.pl line 9, at end of line syntax error at /Users/patnonadmin/Desktop/hello#1.pl line 11, near ";}" Execution of /Users/patnonadmin/Desktop/hello#1.pl aborted due to compilation errors.


Why is there such a long list? I'm assuming that the Terminal is running "macperl" but it doesn't say so.


How do I get past this mess?


Thanks.

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