Um, lol, where to begin....

Well, like I mentioned, I am pretty new. I am literally on page 36 of 'Learning Perl, 5th Edition'. And I did use -w in my code when trying out different things, yet I still received the same message as I showed in my original post. Read below, though.

As for the / before usr, I didn't mean to sound like I was completely dismissing the idea, but I knew it wasn't that because all of my other programs work without it. If there is a reason why it would be different for one program and not the others, please tell me.

Ikegami, sorry about the semicolon. I have a tendency to overview my posts, and I thought I had accidentally missed it. Turns out I did on the program, too. :P. But, this introduces a new problem. Hello world only prints once, but I want it to print 20 times and then the program to say "Wait...".

Ig, I am running Ubuntu 11.04 and when I want to run a program I type in 'perl name.plx'.

Also, thanks JavaFan and Ig for "defending" me, but the last thing I want to do is create hostilities between people.

In reply to Re: Re: It LOOKS right... by BIOM01
in thread It LOOKS right... by BIOM01

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