G'day Rob,

++ Many thanks. That's pretty much exactly what I was looking for. I followed your instructions and everything worked perfectly.

When I came back to write this, I saw your update. Actually, in my case, removing the 5_030_000 was necessary; although, a simple s/30_000/26_003/ on three lines was all that was required. I also removed the ActivePerl entries from the path. The reason is that if something is not found under 5.26, I want to know about it; instead of a something that I'd previously installed under 5.30 (or 5.16) being silently used — I'm not sure how likely that might be, but now I can be certain it won't happen. I've documented all paths and the changes I've made — probably less than a minute's work to swap to a different version.

So now my PATH looks like this (split up, and a chuck removed from the middle, for ease of viewing): 

C:\Users\ken\tmp>echo %PATH%
C:\Users\ken\local\opt\strawberry_perl\5_026_003\install\perl\site\bin
+;
C:\Users\ken\local\opt\strawberry_perl\5_026_003\install\perl\bin;
C:\Users\ken\local\opt\strawberry_perl\5_026_003\install\c\bin;
...;
C:\Users\ken\local\bin

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I get the added benefit of only having to start cmd.exe: 

C:\Users\ken\tmp>perl -v

This is perl 5, version 26, subversion 3 (v5.26.3) built for MSWin32-x
+64-multi-thread
...

C:\Users\ken\tmp>perl -E "say for @INC"
C:/Users/ken/local/opt/strawberry_perl/5_026_003/install/perl/site/lib
C:/Users/ken/local/opt/strawberry_perl/5_026_003/install/perl/vendor/l
+ib
C:/Users/ken/local/opt/strawberry_perl/5_026_003/install/perl/lib

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This is probably not ideal if you want to quickly swap between versions; however, for my current ($work) needs, it's spot on. Thanks again.

— Ken

In reply to Re^2: Strawberry Perl - installing an older version (portable) by kcott
in thread Strawberry Perl - installing an older version by kcott

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