getting up and running with ActiveState perl

[carpeliam]

Well I did a lot of perl last summer or two summers ago, but it's been a little while since then. I used to write scripts, upload them to the server, and have nothing more than a 500 Internal Server Error to tell me there was a problem somewhere in there (usually a missing closing bracket or an unmatched apostrophe). I downloaded ActiveState (I have a Win98 machine), but never really figured out how I could use it. Now I just went out and bought the Camel book last night to get back into things, and I want to figure out how to start programming in Perl again on my machine. How do I set up Perl (and ActiveSate) so I can run scripts from my computer? How can I (at least) pinpoint what line an error is coming from so I can debug much more easily? Is there an editor I could get that would highlight keywords, check my script and point out errors, etc.? I want to get back into Perl, but those 500 Internal Server Errors were killing me )<br><br>Thanks all... <p>Liam Morley<br><a href=mailto:lmorley@wpi.edu>lmorley@wpi.edu</a><br><a href=

http://www.wpi.edu/~lmorley/>

] :: imotic :: website :: [</a><br>"light the deep, and bring silence to the world.<br>
light the world, and bring depth to the silence."

 

[MikeLacey]

there is, have a look at:<br><br><A HREF="

http://www.solutionsoft.com/pb2_linux.htm"

TARGET="_new">

http://www.solutionsoft.com/pb2_linux.htm</A><br><br>for

the linux beta version, there's a Win98 && NT version as well with a downloadable demo<br><br>It looks quite good, thinking of buying a 20 user license for work.<br><br><br><br> <p>Mike<br><a href=mailto:michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com>michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com</a><br><a href=

http://www.cargill.com/>

Cargill's Corporate Web Site</a><br>

 

[carpeliam]

thanks, Mike. I was also able to find this nice piece of freeware, Visual Perl Editor, at <A HREF="

http://kakoulidis.homepage.com/perl.html"

TARGET="_new">

http://kakoulidis.homepage.com/perl.html</A>

... <p>Liam Morley<br><a href=mailto:lmorley@wpi.edu>lmorley@wpi.edu</a><br><a href=

http://www.wpi.edu/~lmorley/>

] :: imotic :: website :: [</a><br>"light the deep, and bring silence to the world.<br>
light the world, and bring depth to the silence.

 

[MikeLacey]

thx Liam <p>Mike<br><a href=mailto:michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com>michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com</a><br><a href=

http://www.cargill.com/>

Cargill's Corporate Web Site</a><br>