Using Perl with Windows

It appears that a lot of people don't have any idea how to run a perl program under Windows. Perl runs just about anywhere and Windows is no exception. The easiest way, and the way I recommend, is to download ActiveState's free Windows Perl distribution. It is very friendly with a nice installer. Once you have it installed, the program in this post will run fine.

While you are at it, download a copy of the free Komodo Edit code editor. I have been using it a lot lately and really liking it. It is responsive and has a nice feature set. Since it provides background syntax checking and tool tips with syntax it actually makes learning perl easier. It understands quite a few file formats, so it is good for more than perl.