Engineering Projects/Attendance/perl/Installation

First download strawberry perl if on windows machine, otherwise download activestate perl.

To test if the installation is correct, cut and paste this into notepad print "hello world/n"; $pause = <>;

For Windows: Write perl programs in notepad. Click "Save To". Set the "Save as type:" to "all files" rather than the default. Name the program with the extension *.pl so the file name looks something like this "test.pl".

Save it to the desktop or another known folder.

Execute it by double clicking on the program. It will display a black screen with the words "hello world" in it and then wait for you to press enter on the keyboard. Then the black window will close.