@ Anonymous Monk - The commando prompt tells me so. Again, I am new to Perl thus not familiar with the LSP. :-)
@ JohnGG - Your stab was correct, but the problem seemed to be sorted by installing Padre (thanks Corion for that hint).
@ Stud - I appreciate suggestions, but would you mind explaining what the addition of these specific lines do?

Unfortunately, this was not the end of my problems. When I execute it now typing: "perl readwrite.pl 0720-da.txt" the cursor simple moves down a line blinking in all voidness. Don't even know how to return to the directory, so I have to click on command promt cross to shut it down every time. I get no error messages whatsoever, only the cursor moves to a new and empty line doing nothing. Why? :-(

Really appreciate any help you can provide. And please ask if anything appears unclear. Thanks again.

In reply to Re^2: "Can't open perl script..." :-( by Erosia
in thread "Can't open perl script..." :-( by Erosia

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