Re: ARGV not getting set

Hi,

Use the Start Button to find Default Prograns to see what program file type .pl is associated with and, if necessary, associate it with your perl executable.

J.C.

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Re^2: ARGV not getting set by mnooning (Beadle) on Aug 04, 2017 at 16:35 UTC
My thanks to those who are suggesting Windows 7 is not knowing which program to associate with a .pl file. However, from the shown results we can surmise that the system finds C:\Perl\bin\Perl.exe on it's own and executes the short .pl script. It therefore knows the correct association. It just does not set ARGV correctly. Just as a check, I looked at the Default Programs as suggested and it does indeed say .pl is set to the "Perl Command Line Interpreter". Hmmm. Activestate wanted to install Perl into C:\Perl64. I told it to install it to C:\Perl instead. Maybe that is the problem. I will try to move C:\Perl elsewhere and reinstall the latest Perl to C:\Perl64. Time passes ... Okay, I just uninstalled and then reinstalled Perl. The problem went away. Thank goodness.	[reply]

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Re^2: ARGV not getting set
by mnooning (Beadle) on Aug 04, 2017 at 16:35 UTC

My thanks to those who are suggesting Windows 7 is not knowing which program to associate with a .pl file. However, from the shown results we can surmise that the system finds C:\Perl\bin\Perl.exe on it's own and executes the short .pl script. It therefore knows the correct association. It just does not set ARGV correctly. Just as a check, I looked at the Default Programs as suggested and it does indeed say .pl is set to the "Perl Command Line Interpreter".

Hmmm. Activestate wanted to install Perl into C:\Perl64. I told it to install it to C:\Perl instead. Maybe that is the problem. I will try to move C:\Perl elsewhere and reinstall the latest Perl to C:\Perl64.

Time passes ...

Okay, I just uninstalled and then reinstalled Perl. The problem went away. Thank goodness.

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