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From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna AT efn DOT org>
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Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 01:18:51 +0000 (UTC)
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Harold Fuchs <harold <at> wolfeden.demon.co.uk> writes:
> Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> > How are you starting your script?  Can you put: print "$^O: $]\n"
> > or something at the beginning and verify for sure which perl you are
> > using?
 
> At a command prompt (DOS/CMD or cygwin) do "perl -version" (no quotes). Not 
> "-v"; spell it out in full. That will tell you, for each shell, which 
> version of perl *perl* thinks is running. Then, if you have two different 
> ones, remove the one you don't want.

perl -v is identical in meaning to perl -version, and has been for a long long
time.

And that will tell you about the perl that gets invoked when you type

    perl foo.pl

at a shell prompt, but won't tell you anything about what version of perl
a particular script ends up using.


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