Monks! (& ladies, one hopes),

First, thanks for looking at this post. Newbie, and what's worse, a Windows guy until I grow up and get a real OS.

Nonetheless, I am being flummoxed running a perl script from the command line. The script is meant to process an HTML file and change out the unicode characters for HTML entities, e.g. " goes to &rdquo.

The command line & the error message is:

C:\Perl64>entities_99.pl

Can't locate strict.pm in @INC (@INC contains: .) at C:\Perl64\bin\entities_99.pl line 2.

BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:\Perl64\bin\entities_99.pl line 2

So, where do I direct my script to find strict.pm?

Here's the script:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;
$|=1;   #makes the macro produce all results at once, not in spurts

my $filename = "RAH99.html";
my $output = $filename;
my $backupoutput = $filename;
my $backupoutput =~ s{\.html*}{.entbackup.html}i;

open (IN, $filename);
my $book = join('',<IN>);
close IN;

open (OUT, ">$backupoutput");
print OUT $book;
close OUT;


$book =~ s/‘/&lsquo;/g;

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Lots more entity substitution lines, omitted for brevity 

$book =~ s/ü/&uuml;/g;

my $utf8 = qq!<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; char
+set=UTF-8" />!;

$book = "I have changed the most common Unicode characters into HTML e
+ntities.\n\nUse this search term to find any leftovers: [€-ÿ]\n\nAlso
+, don't forget to add a UTF-8 meta tag to your header:\n\n$utf8\n\n".
+$book;
open (OUT, ">$filename");
print OUT $book;
close OUT;

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So, why wouldn't ActiveState have strict.pm, well, never mind that; how do I find strict.pm to make this script work?

Or any other comment that could make this work

Many thanks to any and all Monks who can take the time to assist a wandering Newbie

Captain Rob

In reply to Flummoxed by strict.pm by CaptainRob

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