Hello everybody, I am a total beginner in Perl and I am facing some problems. I have a book which covers up to Perl 5.8 but I installed Ubuntu 14.04 which have Perl 5.18.2. I am facing some problems in my programs. My book has some examples of code which I am writing them again in a text editor in order to practice more. The thing is that even these programs (which are exactly copy-paste from the book) cannot be executed and I have many fault messages in my terminal. Could be responsible my Perl version? Are there so many differences between Perl 5.8 (text book) and 5.18.2 (my Ubuntu Perl version)? Thank you in advance for your answer and your time. Regards, A desperate beginner.

In reply to Differences between Perl 5.8 and Perl 5.18.2 by mbgbioinfo

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