I am likely to disagree with some Monks. But it appears to me that you don't need the "latest and greatest" and do not need to fiddle around with strawberry.

I would use ActiveState Perl for your app. Go to http://www.activestate.com/downloads/. These folks are often 1-2 years behind the curve in terms of packages, but I think that stuff from 2 years ago will work just fine for you!

Whatever you do, stop this Windows thing of spaces in the file name! This just causes heart ache and grief. Instead of directory "aufa doarest", in "My Documents", make a directory C:\doarest and put your programs there. Never use a space in a Perl file or path name, put _, underscore instead of a space.

I don't know what PerlID is. I think forget it. There are wonderful "standard", well debugged modules like Mechanize that can do what you want. Use modules that lots of other people use and you will get lots of help.

In reply to Re: Failed to execute my perl program on open perlID by Marshall
in thread Failed to execute my perl program on open perlID by aufa

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