Re: What am I doing wrong here?

Williamawalters%40aol.com">Williamawaltersaol.com wrote:
> hi steve --
>
> In a message dated 8/30/2007 6:11:13 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, kcom1989%40fastmail.fm">kcom1989fastmail.fm writes:
>
> > On Windows Active State perl whenever I try to run the program "print
> > ("Hello World.n");"; I keep getting the error messages "Bareword found
> > where operator expected at - line 1 near "print (Hello"" (missing
> > operator before Hello?), String found where operator expected at - line
>; > 1 near ""print ("" (Missing semicolon on previous line?), and String
> > found where operator expected at - line near "n");"". What am I doing
> > wrong here and how do I fix this? TIA Steve
> > --
> > Steve Horn
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>
> to answer the question "What am I doing wrong here ... ", we need to know what you are doing.
>
> can you supply a complete, standalone program that demonstrates the problem?
> as this seems to be a ``hello world'' program, that should be fairly easy.
> generating such a program in and of itself may serve to elucidate the problem.
>
> at a guess, you have left off the double-quote before Hello -- that's what the error message
> seems to be saying.
>
> hth -- bill walters
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I do have the hello world program and I use double-quote but for some
reason it's still not working.
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Steve Horn
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