AlphaX+Perl

petercolapietro has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Monks I am running Mac OS X Version 10.4.7 on my MacBook Pro. I downloaded Perl 5.8.8 and put it in /library/perl. I am using AlphaX as my texteditor when I code for Perl. I also download Tcl/Tk Aqua Batteries as instructed. I am going through O"reilly's Learning Perl. I created my first code:

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Hello, world!\n";
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I think I set everything up right in Config > Perl Mode Prefs. But when I go to the Camal tab > tell perl > open this file the Camal turns blue all around it and it just stays that way. When I hit esc it says AESend failer: OSErr - 1711. If I try the camal tab > Run a file and choose the Hello, world! file it says can't read "wname": no such variable. I looked all through the wiki at http://alphatcl.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/wikit/24.html and the AlphaX website but I can't seem to figure it out. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Re: AlphaX+Perl by cwry (Monk) on Aug 01, 2006 at 03:02 UTC
Sorry, I don't use AlphaX, but may I suggest in the meantime that you have a read of Writeup Formatting Tips, particularly the sections about code tags and linefeeds getting stripped. You can then update your original node.	[reply]
Re^2: AlphaX+Perl by petercolapietro (Initiate) on Aug 01, 2006 at 03:10 UTC
Thanks for your advice I will now format my posts correctly.	[reply]
Re: AlphaX+Perl by john_oshea (Priest) on Aug 01, 2006 at 16:50 UTC
As a side note, if you're planning on actually using the 5.8.8 installation, your programs should begin with `#!/library/perl`, otherwise you'll be using the standard Perl that comes with 10.4.7 (which I think is 5.8.6). I'm not familiar with AlphaX at all - does it have any preferences to tell it where perl is located perhaps?	[reply] [d/l]