A newer version of Strawberry Perl (64-bit) is already installed.

I handle multiple versions of Strawberry Perl by installing the portable zip instead of the MSI. Just grab strawberry-perl-5.26.3.1-64bit-portable.zip (or strawberry-perl-5.26.3.1-32bit-portable.zip for 32-bit architecture), cd to 
C:\Users\ken\local\opt\strawberry_perl\5_026_003\install

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and unzip it.

Having done that, executing C:\Users\ken\local\opt\strawberry_perl\5_026_003\install\portableshell.bat will open a cmd.exe shell with the PATH already set to point at the 5.26.3 installation.

UPDATE:
I can remove these — in fact, I half suspect that will be necessary ...

I believe that won't be necessary - the shell opened by potrtableshell.bat will prepend the pre-existing PATH with the location of perl-5.26.3.
Any other shell that's not created by portableshell.bat will still point to perl-5.30.0.

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re: Strawberry Perl - installing an older version by syphilis
in thread Strawberry Perl - installing an older version by kcott

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