Running Perl script under Windows

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

HI Monks... As the other members of this community I am not a perl scripter or a programmer, neither I have any sort of knowledge about any programming... Basically I am a programming illiterate. But I do have a script from one of my friend to run.. but dont know how to.... can anybody help me with it....probably from DOS command lines

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Re: Running Perl script under Windows by Utilitarian (Vicar) on Aug 09, 2011 at 15:52 UTC
If you trust your friend very very much, and have Perl installed you should be able to run `perl <script name>` [download] Where script name is the name of the script. If you don't have Perl installed, ask him if there is a preference of which version of Perl to install and download and install it. If no preference try Activestate's Perl `print "Good ",qw(night morning afternoon evening)[(localtime)[2]/6]," fellow monks."`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Running Perl script under Windows by derby (Abbot) on Aug 09, 2011 at 15:50 UTC
It's not too silly. But out of curiosity should you trust your friend's script if he can't tell you how to run it? but ... lmgtfy. -derby	[reply]
Re: Running Perl script under Windows by locked_user sundialsvc4 (Abbot) on Aug 09, 2011 at 23:40 UTC
“It’s not too silly,” and, “all of us are ‘illterate’ about more things than we are not.” Enough excuses. What we need from you are details. What is the name of this script? Can you post a few lines of its content? (Please take time to read “Markup in the Monastery.”) In short, please try to turn your question into something that an earnest perfect-stranger can help you to solve. Apologies are unnecessary. You’ve found the collective resource that you need: give us sufficient information to allow us to resolve your problem.