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ActivePerl User Guide |
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Contents
ActivePerl is a quality-assured binary build of Perl, available for
Windows, Linux and Solaris.
New Features in ActivePerl 5.6:
- Globalization and Unicode
- Concurrent Interpreters
- Granularity of warnings
- New regex constructs
- Additional documentation and tutorials
- Lvalue subroutines
- Subroutine attributes
- 64-bit platforms
- Large File Systems
The complete ActivePerl Package contains:
- Perl - binary of core perl distribution
- Complete Online documentation
- Perl Package Manager - Perl extension installer and manager.
The Windows version also includes:
- Perl for ISAPI - IIS plug-in that makes perl CGI faster
- PerlScript - ActiveX scripting engine, like JavaScript or VBScript with a
Perl brain
- PerlEz - Embedded Perl
Running Perl scripts from the command line
To run your Perl scripts, type:
perl <scriptname>
at the command prompt, where <scriptname> is the name of
the script you want to launch. Also, if you are using Windows and have
associated the extension of the file with perl, typing <scriptname>
will also launch the script.
Sample Script
In the /eg directory of your Perl install there is a sample
script named example.pl To run it, launch a console window, make
the /eg directory your current working directory and type:
perl example.pl
You should see:
Hello from ActivePerl!
If you do, you've successfully installed ActivePerl! If not, there's
something wrong with your install. Check to make sure that your Path environment
variable includes the directories to which you installed the Perl core binaries.
(You can type set at the command prompt to see what's in your
Path.) If you chose the defaults during the install, these should be set to the
correct values for you when you start a new command prompt.
One last note, typing perl -h will display all of the available
command line options available to you.
ActivePerl includes a collection of
Frequently
Asked Questions about ActivePerl. The FAQ is a valuable source of distilled
wisdom about using Perl. It is a must read!
The Perl FAQ is included in
the ActivePerl documentation, and answers many questions regarding the use of
Perl.
Search the
ActivePerl Mailing
List archives for information about your problem. Before posting to the
mailing list, ensure that you have thoroughly read the FAQs and the relevant
Perl documentation.
See More Resources for additional
sources of information.
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