Re: Perl setup & question.

Hello All,

I'm just starting out with Perl, reading the Llama book for a gentle
intro and trying to understand some of the documentation. I've done a
little BASIC and recently started using Awk... but at heart am more a
'Sibelius type person' than a 'Programmer type person'. So would
appreciate a little advice on what is the best way to setup !Perl on my
machines? Also does !Perl requires any additional items above what is in
the 'perl_113_riscpc.zip' archive?

The computers are:
1) RiscPC: RO 3.6, ARM 710, 2+36Mb RAM, 540Mb HD & CD.
2) A7000+: RO 3.71, 72Mb RAM, 1.2Gb HD.
both using the New Boot sequence.

At first I put !Perl in !Boot.Choices.Boot.Tasks as suggested in the
Help file but this lead to it being run at every start-up, opening the
Scripts directory and Help file. After a while I moved it to it's own
directory $.Programs.Perl, where it would be seen by the Filer before I
ran any Perl scripts... but then I noticed that inside !Perl some of the
file names had been truncated, so, created a raFS directory and
de-archived a fresh copy of !Perl into that.

My beginner's hello world scripts appear to run satisfactorily with
!Perl in each of the three locations... but I would appreciate some
reassurance that any (or all) of these locations is OK... or is there a
better setup?

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On a different topic:

A friend has (rather rashly) asked me if it is possible to ammend his
cgi scripts so as to display dollar and euro prices (in addition to
sterling) on his site.

I've written a little extra code which does the calculation, etc... but
I'm not sure how to generate a Euro charater - my HTML text was printed
before the Euro. Would this do the trick?

$dollar_euro_str = " \$$dollar_price, €$euro_price"


Best regards, Philip.