Re: [Fun With Perl] which perl

[John Porter <jdporter@min.net>]

> > grep( -e "$_/perl.exe", split( ";", $ENV{PATH} ) )
> 
> Windows has no "which" or "type"?

Of course not.  (What, no smiley?)

More to the point, doesn't $^X work right on Windows?


> Wouldn't that be -x, BTW?  I dunno if it makes a real difference on
> Windows ("permissions?  What's that?")

Might make a difference on NT.  But of course it's better to program
portably, all other things being equal.  (Which they never are... :-)

John Porter


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