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Installing Perl

To use Perl you must install it. Depending on the operating system you are using, Perl may be already installed. To see whether it is installed, go to a command prompt and enter:

perl -v

If you get a message like 'command not found' or 'Bad command or file name', it means that Perl is not installed. If it is installed, its version number along with a few other bits of information will be printed.

Installing Perl on Windows

ActiveState Tool Corp provides a self-installing Perl distribution. You can download and install this from http://www.ActiveState.com

Installing Perl on Unix

You can download Perl from http://www.perl.com. Make sure that you download the 'stable' or 'production' version.

Installing Perl on a Macintosh

You can download and install Perl from http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/#mac.

Documentation

With every Perl installation, you get a full copy of the latest version of the documentation. Once Perl is installed, you can access the documentation from the command line by entering the following command:

perldoc perl

You may also be able to access an HTML version of the documentation, which you can view in a browser. For a Windows installation, this would typically be found at C:\Perl\html\index.html.

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