Hi Rob ,

Thanks for the immediate reply. Here is the output of perl -V

 perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 24 subversion 1) configuration
+:

  Platform:
    osname=MSWin32, osvers=5.2, archname=MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
    uname=''
    config_args='undef'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=undef
    useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define
    use64bitint=undef, use64bitall=undef, uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cl', ccflags ='-nologo -GF -W3 -O1 -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -GL -DWIN3
+2 -D_CONSOLE -DNO_STRICT -D_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE -D_CRT_NONSTDC_NO
+_DEPRECATE  -DPERL_TEXTMODE_SCRIPTS -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IM
+PLICIT_SYS',
    optimize='-O1 -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -GL',
    cppflags='-DWIN32'
    ccversion='15.00.30729.01', gccversion='', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234, do
+ublekind=3
    d_longlong=undef, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=8,
+ longdblkind=0
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='__int64
+', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=8, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='link', ldflags ='-nologo -nodefaultlib -debug -opt:ref,icf -lt
+cg  -libpath:"c:\perl-5241\lib\CORE"  -machine:x86'
    libpth=\lib
    libs=oldnames.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib  
+comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib  netapi3
+2.lib uuid.lib ws2_32.lib mpr.lib winmm.lib  version.lib odbc32.lib o
+dbccp32.lib comctl32.lib msvcrt.lib
    perllibs=oldnames.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.l
+ib  comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib  net
+api32.lib uuid.lib ws2_32.lib mpr.lib winmm.lib  version.lib odbc32.l
+ib odbccp32.lib comctl32.lib msvcrt.lib
    libc=msvcrt.lib, so=dll, useshrplib=true, libperl=perl524.lib
    gnulibc_version=''
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_win32.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
    cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-dll -nologo -nodefaultlib -debug -opt:
+ref,icf -ltcg  -libpath:"c:\perl-5241\lib\CORE"  -machine:x86'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
  Compile-time options: HAS_TIMES HAVE_INTERP_INTERN MULTIPLICITY
                        PERLIO_LAYERS PERL_COPY_ON_WRITE
                        PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV
                        PERL_HASH_FUNC_ONE_AT_A_TIME_HARD
                        PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS
                        PERL_MALLOC_WRAP PERL_PRESERVE_IVUV USE_ITHREA
+DS
                        USE_LARGE_FILES USE_LOCALE USE_LOCALE_COLLATE
                        USE_LOCALE_CTYPE USE_LOCALE_NUMERIC USE_LOCALE
+_TIME
                        USE_PERLIO USE_PERL_ATOF
  Built under MSWin32
  Compiled at Jun 30 2017 03:50:01
  %ENV:
    PERL5LIB="c:\perl-5241\lib;c:\perl-5241\site\lib;C:\PROGRA~2\CSCOp
+x\lib"
  @INC:
    c:\perl-5241\lib
    c:\perl-5241\site\lib
    C:\PROGRA~2\CSCOpx\lib
    c:/perl-5241/site/lib
    c:/perl-5241/lib
    .
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