If you have telnet access typing "perl -v" will work. If you don't, send an email to the server's Powers That Be.

In my experience the version of Perl has made very very little difference in my life. If you have very specific needs (Unicode support, the fake Windows fork, etc.) then the version might matter. Otherwise, you're far more likely to run into problems of not having a particular module version (or worse, not having the module you need at all.) I've run scripts on machines with 5.004, 5.005, 5.6, and 5.6.1 and I've never had any problems related with the compiler itself... it's always been something external like a DB file or a module or something.

Gary Blackburn
Trained Killer

In reply to Re: what version of perl the server is running? by Trimbach
in thread what version of perl the server is running? by Anonymous Monk

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