Welcome to Perl! You should be aware that the korn shell you invoked with #!/usr/bin/env ksh is a different language to Perl, use one or the other. The second #! line does not invoke perl, it is merely seen as a comment. The error is probably because korn shell does not allow spaces around the '=' in an assignment, but more flexible languages, like Perl, do.

I noticed that you are invoking ksh using env(1), and wonder if you should be doing the same for perl. You are not using strict and warnings. I known this is only a simple basic script, but scripts never get any smaller! It is worth always using them, no matter how trivial the program.

Here is my version: 
#!/usr/bin/perl 
use warnings;
use strict;

my $inputline = 34; 
print "$inputline\n";

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Have fun!
Update: corrected typo (thanks Anomalous Monk)

In reply to Re: Not able to run the perl script by cdarke
in thread Not able to run the perl script by Amey Joshi

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