beginning perl in ubuntu

[manish411]

#!/usr/bin/perl
$inputline = <STDIN>;
print ($inputline );



while running the simple programming
in file pr1
I am getting the following problem




./pr1: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token `;'
./pr1: line 2: ` $inputline = <STDIN>;'

[nvteighen]

This works for me:



#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my $input = <STDIN>;
print $input;


EDIT: How are you executing your code?

[cgroza]

I don't think you are using the perl interpreter to execute that code.
I typed the same thing in bash, and got the exact same error message.

[Arndt]

#!/usr/bin/perl
$inputline = <STDIN>;
print ($inputline );



while running the simple programming
in file pr1
I am getting the following problem




./pr1: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token `;'
./pr1: line 2: ` $inputline = <STDIN>;'



You have blanks at the start of all lines. This doesn't matter for the perl code, but it disables the #! line, so when seeing ./pr1, bash will treat it as a bash script. Remove the blank.