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Updated on 2025-04-07

Perl Beginner Notes: Hello World

You need to start learning Perl for work, download a Window version (5.16): Download link
/activeperl/downloads
After installation, write the first perl program

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#!/usr/bin/perl 
print "Hello,World!\n";

Running result: (It looks very similar to Python)
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c:\Perl>perl  
Hello,World!

Then I learned: cpan, although I don’t know what this guy is doing, I should be able to install various packages, more than 9,000.
The command is as follows: Look at the result of the second output, it should be something similar to the database.
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c:\Perl>cpan App::cpanminus 
Set up gcc environment - 3.4.5 (mingw-vista special r3) 
CPAN: Term::ANSIColor loaded ok (v4.02) 
CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.34) 
Reading 'C:\Perl\cpan\Metadata' 
Database was generated on Fri, 07 Mar 2014 13:06:13 GMT 
CPAN: Module::CoreList loaded ok (v2.80) 
App::cpanminus is up to date (1.7001). 

Then use cpan to install the module, the command is as follows: (cpan Module::Name)
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c:\Perl>cpanm YAML 
Set up gcc environment - 3.4.5 (mingw-vista special r3) 
--> Working on YAML 
Fetching /authors/id/I/IN/INGY/YAML-0. ... OK 
Configuring YAML-0.90 ... OK 
Building and testing YAML-0.90 ... OK 
Successfully installed YAML-0.90 
1 distribution installed 

If you really don’t know how to use it: cpanm --help    //-->I will see many prompts.
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c:\Perl>cpanm --help 
Set up gcc environment - 3.4.5 (mingw-vista special r3) 
Usage: cpanm [options] Module [...] 
 
Options: 
  -v,--verbose              Turns on chatty output 
  -q,--quiet                Turns off the most output 

Looking at the above installation process, it seems that you can execute cpanm Link, and it is indeed possible:
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c:\Perl>cpanm /CPAN/authors/id/S/SH/SHARYANTO/Alt-Base-0.0 
 
Set up gcc environment - 3.4.5 (mingw-vista special r3) 
--> Working on /CPAN/authors/id/S/SH/SHARYANTO/Alt-Base-0
 
Fetching /CPAN/authors/id/S/SH/SHARYANTO/Alt-Base-0. 
.gz ... OK 
Configuring Alt-Base-0.02 ... OK 
==> Found dependencies: Alt 
--> Working on Alt 
Fetching /authors/id/I/IN/INGY/Alt-0. ... OK 
Configuring Alt-0.04 ... OK 
Building and testing Alt-0.04 ... OK 
Successfully installed Alt-0.04 
Building and testing Alt-Base-0.02 ... OK 
Successfully installed Alt-Base-0.02 
2 distributions installed 

Then I started writing a file operation script, which contained a Path::Class module.
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use Path::Class; 
C:\Perl\Learn>perl  
Can't locate Path/ in @INC (@INC contains: C:/Perl/site/lib/MSWin32-x86- 
multi-thread C:/Perl/site/lib C:/Perl/lib .) at line 4. 
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at line 4. 

Looking at the prompt, if the package is not installed, the package is installed, and the result is that this error is not reported:
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C:\Perl\Learn>cpanm Path::Class 
Set up gcc environment - 3.4.5 (mingw-vista special r3) 
--> Working on Path::Class 
Fetching /authors/id/K/KW/KWILLIAMS/Path-Class-0. .. 
. OK 
Configuring Path-Class-0.33 ... OK 
Building and testing Path-Class-0.33 ... OK 
Successfully installed Path-Class-0.33 
1 distribution installed 

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