Perl as a Whisker client

Obtaining and installing Perl

Perl for Win32 is available free, from http://www.ActiveState.com/. Follow the installation instructions that accompany the software.

Writing code for Perl and running Perl programs

Essentially, you use a text editor to create a Perl script, usually called something.pl. Then you can simply type something.pl from the command line, passing it further arguments as necessary.

Example Perl scripts for Whisker

A few examples follow, of which whisker_perl_demo.pl is the clearest.