Basic #1 Hello World

This is the first perl script to write.

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#!C:/Perl/Bin/Perl
#prints the words “hello world” with a leading next-line character
print “Hello World\n”;
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Line 1
The first line must always start with the “shebang” character -”#!”, followed by the location of where your perl interpreter resides.

I am using windows, but i suggest to use the “/” instead of the “\” as the folder separator because next time if you write a perl script on the apache server, all the “\” folder separator must be changed to “/” for it to work propely.

Line 2
The second line uses the print command to print the trailing text unto the standard output.

Note that except for the first line, all lines should end with a “;” to indicate the end of the line.

Line 3
The 3rd line is a comment, it will not be executed. A comment is indicated by a “#” at the beginning.

Save the file as hello.pl and run perl hello.pl in the command prompt.

That’s it!