I don't know how "cool" this is (it's cool to me) but this is a small script I wrote 13 years ago. It simply converts and prints out the Perl version contained in the built-in variable $] to the string as we usually see it when we are discussing Perl releases. Just run it, you'll see what I mean ;-).

#!/usr/bin/env perl

# First created: 2012-05-08
# Last modified: 2012-08-26T01:37:48 UTC-04:00

use strict;
my $pow = 2;
my $test_v = $ARGV[0] || $];
my @qiu = split(q/[._]/ => $test_v);
@qiu[1 .. @qiu] = map {sprintf(q[%u],$_/10**$pow++)}
                    map {unpack "A4 A4",$_ * 10**3 } @qiu[1 .. $#qiu];
my $tuple_perlversion = join q[.], grep{length($_)} @qiu;

print "$tuple_perlversion\n";

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    Soren

Jul 12, 2025 at 17:07 UTC

In reply to Display common "tuple" rendition of Perl $] variable by Intrepid

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