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. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/