Hi, I've just started using perl and was attempting to use a simple program.

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Hello World\n";
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However when I went to run in through terminal I get this response. In terminal I am in the folder where the program is located and type in perl hello.pl I get the following error

Backslash found where operator expected at hello.pl line 1, near "rtf1
+\"
Backslash found where operator expected at hello.pl line 1, near "ansi
+\"
Backslash found where operator expected at hello.pl line 1, near "ansi
+cpg1252\"
Backslash found where operator expected at hello.pl line 1, near "coco
+artf1038\"
Backslash found where operator expected at hello.pl line 2, near "font
+tbl\"
Backslash found where operator expected at hello.pl line 2, near "f0\"
Backslash found where operator expected at hello.pl line 2, near "fmod
+ern\"
Backslash found where operator expected at hello.pl line 3, near "red2
+55\"
Backslash found where operator expected at hello.pl line 3, near "gree
+n255\"
Backslash found where operator expected at hello.pl line 4, near "marg
+l1440\"
Backslash found where operator expected at hello.pl line 4, near "marg
+r1440\"
Backslash found where operator expected at hello.pl line 4, near "view
+w9000\"
Backslash found where operator expected at hello.pl line 4, near "view
+h8400\"
Backslash found where operator expected at hello.pl line 5, near "view
+kind0
\"
    (Missing semicolon on previous line?)
Backslash found where operator expected at hello.pl line 6, near "deft
+ab720
\"
    (Missing semicolon on previous line?)
Backslash found where operator expected at hello.pl line 6, near "pard
+\"
Backslash found where operator expected at hello.pl line 6, near "pard
+eftab720\"
Backslash found where operator expected at hello.pl line 6, near "ql\"
Backslash found where operator expected at hello.pl line 8, near "qnat
+ural

\"
    (Missing semicolon on previous line?)
Backslash found where operator expected at hello.pl line 8, near "f0\"
Backslash found where operator expected at hello.pl line 8, near "fs24
+ \"
    (Do you need to predeclare fs24?)
Backslash found where operator expected at hello.pl line 9, near "cf0 
+#!/usr/bin/perl -w\
\"
    (Missing semicolon on previous line?)
syntax error at hello.pl line 1, near "rtf1\"
syntax error at hello.pl line 3, near "red255\"
syntax error at hello.pl line 4, near "margl1440\"
"use" not allowed in expression at hello.pl line 10, at end of line
"use" not allowed in expression at hello.pl line 11, at end of line
syntax error at hello.pl line 14, near "}"
Execution of hello.pl aborted due to compilation errors.
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Does anyone have any idea what I am doing wrong or what is going on with my machine? Thank You

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