Hi Monks,

I am new to Perl. I have tried installing Perl on my machine that is running on windows XP. I downloaded ActivePerl for Windows XP (WIndows MSI package) from ActiveState. Then I installed Perl Express (Editor). Both the downloads were successfull. Now when I try to write a small script and Run it, it shows the output of only that script in which I am not usng the "Diamond operator <>".......e.g 

print "Enter one number: ";
$a = <>;
print "Enter another number: ";
$b = <>;
$c = $a + $b;
print "$c";

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Now When I run this......the output comes as..... 

"Enter one number: "

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When I try to enter some number, it do nothing........... Please assist......

Edit: g0n - code tags and formatting

In reply to Installing Perl on Windows XP by Ethen

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