Unless you're writing solely for web-oriented purposes, you'll be a lot better off downloading any one of the distros of Perl often cited here -- ActiveState, Strawberry, perlbrew, etc -- than trying to rely on Xampp's package. If nothing else, installing your own in C:\ or C:\Program Files will save you grief when you update... and most of Perl5's updates are well worth having.

That may well mean that some of what you write (non-web utilities, searches, etc) for the current non-Xampp version may bork should you simply move the code to Xampp, and will (eventually, if not today) require that you update/add modules via ppm or CPAN, but those are low prices compared to getting locked into what's likely to be an outdated version of Perl, in the Xampp bundle.

Come, let us reason together: Spirit of the Monastery

In reply to Re^4: How to run a perl program from the Windows CMD? by ww
in thread How to run a perl program from the Windows CMD? by Stefany

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