Re^2: Perl ODBC Drivers

Slightly better, assuming you have perl 5.10.0 or later:

perl -MDBD::ODBC -E 'say $DBD::ODBC::VERSION'
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-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.

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Re^3: Perl ODBC Drivers by stevieb (Canon) on Oct 28, 2015 at 16:01 UTC
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.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Perl ODBC Drivers by kcott (Archbishop) on Oct 29, 2015 at 06:17 UTC
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 } [download] 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 [download] — Ken	[reply] [d/l] [select]