in reply to Perl ODBC Drivers

I don't have that module installed, but here's one example of checking a module's version:

perl -MData::Dumper -e 'print $Data::Dumper::VERSION' 2.158

So for DBD::ODBC, try this:

perl -MDBD::ODBC -e 'print $DBD::ODBC::VERSION'

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Re^2: Perl ODBC Drivers
by kennethk (Abbot) on Oct 28, 2015 at 15:56 UTC
    Slightly better, assuming you have perl 5.10.0 or later:
    perl -MDBD::ODBC -E 'say $DBD::ODBC::VERSION'
    From perlrun
    -E commandline

    behaves just like -e, except that it implicitly enables all optional features (in the main compilation unit). See feature.
    Saves you two characters and adds a newline to the output.

    #11929 First ask yourself `How would I do this without a computer?' Then have the computer do it the same way.

      Yes, I'm aware and most often use -E. It was just early, and just in case someone tested it that doesn't have a recent enough version for say(). :) Good to point out for those who don't know. In a one-liner, say() is especially useful when iterating.

        If print/say is the only issue, changing -E to -le will make print work the same as say. Furthermore, that will work in very old Perls (at least 5.6, but I expect much earlier).

        I often find I need to check the versions of multiple modules so I wrote this function for that:

        perlmodver () { for i in "$@"; do eval "echo \`perl -E 'no warnings q{deprecated}; use $i; say q +q{$i }, \$$i::VERSION'\`" done }

        Example usage:

        $ perlmodver DBD::ODBC DBD::SQLite DBI Can't locate DBD/ODBC.pm in @INC (you may need to install the DBD::ODB +C module) (@INC contains: /Users/ken/local/lib/perl /Users/ken/perl5/ +perlbrew/perls/perl-5.22.0t/lib/site_perl/5.22.0/darwin-thread-multi- +2level /Users/ken/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.22.0t/lib/site_perl/5.2 +2.0 /Users/ken/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.22.0t/lib/5.22.0/darwin-th +read-multi-2level /Users/ken/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.22.0t/lib/5. +22.0 .) at -e line 1. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1. DBD::SQLite 1.46 DBI 1.633

        — Ken