How to Create Hello World programe in perl on windows xp

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Create Hello World program


We will now write a simple Hellow World program so that you know Perl is running

1. Open Windows Explorer, go to c:\ and create a directory called c:\test.

2. In that directory, create a text file called test.pl.

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3. Right-click on the file and choose Edit to edit the file with Notepad.

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4. In Notepad, type in the following code and save the file.

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Hello World!\n";




5. Click Start > Run then type cmd and click OK .



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6. Type cd c:\test and hit ENTER .

7. Type dir and hit ENTER to make sure your file is there.

8. Now type test.pl and you will see the output of your Perl program.

Categories: Windows XP