hello, i just registered not 10 minutes ago...ive been perl programmer for about 3 hours now (but i have been a c/c++ progger for about a year :P ) and i installed activeperl...and i made a file, with just the following: 
#!c:/perl/bin/perl -w
print "testing\n";

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and it wont compile...here are the errors: 
Backslash found where operator expected at test.pl line 1, near "rtf1\
+"
Backslash found where operator expected at test.pl line 1, near "ansi\
+"
Backslash found where operator expected at test.pl line 1, near "ansic
+pg1252\"
Backslash found where operator expected at test.pl line 1, near "deff0
+\"
Backslash found where operator expected at test.pl line 1, near "f0\"
Backslash found where operator expected at test.pl line 1, near "fswis
+s\"
syntax error at test.pl line 1, near "rtf1\"
syntax error at test.pl line 1, near "}}"
Execution of test.pl aborted due to compilation errors.

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can anyone help me out?

Edit kudra, 2002-05-03 Changed title per ntc request

In reply to Error running test script under activeperl (was: *tips his hat*) by somnium

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