Error encountered for scala script

[swapnil nawale]

Hi All,

I am the newbie trying out to learn Scala. But I got stumped in the very first Hello World Program.
Following is the simple program "HelloWorld.scala" that I am trying to run :

println("Hello World")

I am able to get the result if I use above code on command line. But, when I try to run this code in the script , I am getting following error :

scala> scala HelloWorld.scala
<console>:1: error: ';' expected but '.' found.
       scala HelloWorld.scala
                       ^

I am not able to figure out the reason for this error. Kindly help me out to know the solution.

[David Newton]

Works fine for me.

Oh, wait; why are you trying to run "scala" when you're already in scala??? Exit out of the REPL first.

[swapnil nawale]

Thanks David Newton. My silly mistake. I came out of REPL and was able to run script successfully.

[David Newton]

Glad you worked it out :) And welcome to JavaRanch!

[Marimuthu Madasamy]

@swapnil nawale: Just for your information: within REPL, you can load and interpret a scala file with ':load' option:

scala> :load HelloWorld.scala
Loading HelloWorld.scala...
Hello World

scala>

[swapnil nawale]

Thanks David Newton . And thanks to Marimuthu Madasamy also for extra piece of information