Hello monks, before I start with my issue please allow me to introduce myself. Oh, before that, just so you keep in mind, I'm totally new to Perl and to The Monastery. Also, since English is not my native language, some of my writing may seem incoherent. So please bare with me, ok? Well then, I'm mexican, 21 years old, I'm studying the early stages of a programmer carrer. I have some mild knowledge on JAVA, C++ and HTML. I recently got a "professional experience" job for a company called todito.com. More precisely in a division called toditocard.com.

So, that's my background. Oh, I want to apologize for any inconvenience this post may cause due to its absolute newbieness and I would appreciate if you, great temples of Perl knowledge, could omit the flames and the RTFMs(unless you point to a particular section of a particular manual).

So, here's the deal:
I was entitled with the responsability to develop a program for the site toditocard.com that would scan the links in the page to identify broken links, page's not displayed and to keep track of webspeed server errors(basically white and yellow pages). This would eventually include the storing of the information into a database and possibly the formulation of graphical reports as well as immediate e-mail notifications when status is critical.

The good news: Most of the program will be written in Perl :)
The bad news: I've never used Perl before. :(

So, I've been researching Perl this last few days. The syntax seems clear to me, nothing I can't understand with just some time of study since it's fairly standard. But the issues are somewhere else:

Well, I'm running on Windows 98 2nd Ed and I downloaded the most recent ActivePerl version. I downloaded Perl verification scripts to use as a reference. (Link Checker version 1.4 web version Created by Aaron Anderson to be precise) I would like to strain that I'm just using it as a study reference and I will not make any unethical use of its code.

Now, my problem right now is: I have the file check.pl, which is the main program. But, my problem is, that I don't know how to run the program. Mainly, what happens is that if I run the *.pl file, it runs on the ActivePerl console, and all it does is display some HTML code before closing itself. Same thing I noticed with different software I downloaded. If I try to open the file directly from a web server the same thing happens. So, what I would like to know, if any kind Monk out there hear's my pleas, is how can I manage to open that file with explorer in HTML format, it is important that I understand how that is done so I can start doing my own code.

There's another thing I don't quite understand. Some veryfication programs I've seen seem to use the LWP-UserAgent and the LWP-Simple modules. However, I don't understand if those modules are included or how to download them, since all I can find are variants.

That are my main doubts. Thanks a lot for taking the time to read my post and I would deeply appreciate any help I could get with this little confusion of mine. If this post reeks of absolute newbieness, and you already hate me for it, please allow the moderators to let me know in a civlized manner and avoid the unnecessary flaming.

In reply to Begginer: Need help on implementing web Perl code on Windows by Deib

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