perl in unix editor

[divihavan]

How to run perl in unix through unix os. I am not able to write the line as #!/usr/local/bin/perl. [It does not allow me to enter '#' key]

WITHOUT THIS LINE OS DIDNOT RECOGONIZE the perl commands like "print". So please help me to run the perl program.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Can you say which editor you are using?

# key is certainly permitted entry in vi for example.

Knowing what kind of system you are using, PC or X terminal or whatnot would also be extremely helpful.

SEP

[Steven Schweda]

> Can you say which editor you are using?

Can you say which _anything_ you are using?

> [...] unix os [...]

Not a very detailed description of anything.

uname -a

> [It does not allow me to enter '#' key]

What, exactly, is "It"? What, exactly, are
you doing? What, exactly, happens when you
do it?

Have you tried anything like, say:

perl your_file
?

[Dennis Handly]

>It does not allow me to enter '#' key

What is your stty setting for erase? "@" and "#" cause problems if you don't set these to non-default.

[Bill Hassell]

> [It does not allow me to enter '#' key]

You probably have not run a standard profile during your login. Standard profiles reset the stty settings for backspace and cancel from # and @ to backspace and CTRL-U. If you are using Xwindows, the default action in HP-UX is to silently ignore profiles (a very bad setting) so enable all profiles by running this command when you are logged in:

echo "*loginShell: true" >> $HOME/.Xdefaults

Then logout and login again. Now, your # key should work normally.

If you're not using Xwindows or the above doesn't fix the problem, your .profile files do not have the correct stty commands. Here is what you need:

stty erase "^H" kill "^U" intr "^C" eof "^D" -parity ixoff
stty susp \^Z dsusp \^Y

These are found in the standard .profiles:

/usr/newconfig/etc/skel/.profile

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

> How to run perl in unix through unix os. I am not able to write the line as #!/usr/local/bin/perl. [It does not allow me to enter '#' key]

You have a bigger problem than anything related to Perl.

Without the ability to specify a "she-bang" (otherwise known as an interpreter line) --- the '#!' your shell will think that it is the interpreter for anything you attempt to run. Of course, as Steven suggested, you can always specify the interpreter externally.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Ralph Grothe]

Besides from your hashmark printing problem, you can of course also run your Perl script by giving its path as an argument to the perl interpreter.
First look if it compiles.

$ /usr/local/bin/perl -cw /path/to/your/perlscript.pl


Then if no errors appear you can excute it by ommitiing the "-c" (compile only) option.

Strange, no one mentioned this.

But if you want to do any serious Perl hacking you simply can't do without the hashmark char. Just think about Perl single line comments, the array last element index sigil e.g. $#ary, or simply regex delimiter e.g. m#...#, s#...#...# etc