Question

Can anyone tell me why the below code is showing an error.I am working on perl. I started
working on perl right from 5 minutes back.This is my first program in perl.But its saying syntax error unexpected ‘;’ I wrote the code exactly what given in book.but whats the problem ?where does the error lieing?

###!/cygdrive/c/dynasty/gcc/bin

$in =  <<STDIN>> ;

print ($in) ;

and could you suggest me any good pdfs for perl script thank you.

Answer 1

It should be:

$in = <STDIN>;
print ($in);

Also, Modern Perl is an excellent tutorial.