in reply to Re: "Can't open perl script..." :-(
in thread "Can't open perl script..." :-(

@ 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.

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Re^3: "Can't open perl script..." :-(
by molecules (Monk) on Feb 15, 2010 at 19:10 UTC

    First of all, welcome to the Perl community!

    As to your last question,

    <STDIN>

    will read whatever you type at the command line until you hit

    Ctrl-Z <ENTER>(on Windows) or

    Ctrl-D(on *nix)

    Mentioning that you "need to use Perl in school" reminds me of my having to learn it so that I could maintain some Perl code for my job. I started reading Learning Perl and promptly fell in love with the language.

    EDIT: Corrected for use on Windows. Thanks AnomalousMonk!
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      ...  <STDIN> will read whatever you type at the command line until you hit Ctrl-D.

      Ctrl-D for *nix. In Windose, it's Ctrl-Z.

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