G'day nquiton,

Welcome to the monastery.

The answer to that will depend on how you're actually running your program. Possibilities include: 

> perl prog_name
> prog_name
> perl -e "... perl code ..."

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Also, does: (a) a new window appear, display some program output (possibly too quickly to read), then disappear; or (b) the window containing the initial command prompt disappear as soon as the program finishes?

A possible workaround would be to add this line to your code after processing is completed but before the program exits: 

print "Hit enter when done: "; <>;

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I don't have an MSWin machine to demonstrate that on, but it should look something like this: 

$ perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings -E '
    say "Your program runs and displays output here ...";

    print "Hit enter when done: "; <>;
'
Your program runs and displays output here ...
Hit enter when done:

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When I hit Enter, it returns to the command prompt; in your case, I presume the window would now disappear. The point is, it gives you a chance to actually read the output (or, indeed, do whatever you want with it: paste into a text file, take a screenshot, etc.).

There may be configuration options to alter the behaviour you're seeing: unfortunately, I can't help with that, but maybe another monk can.

-- Ken

In reply to Re: Newbie cmd prompt problem by kcott
in thread Newbie cmd prompt problem by nquiton

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