I'm not sure if I understand you correctly, but if you are trying to set the environment of the parent process calling your Perl script, then that's not possible.

The environment is always copied from parent to child process and not shared.

A changed environment in your Perl script is only visible inside this script and children processes of that script.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
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update

If your problem is in the other direction, try export with variables meant to be available to a child process

lanx@ubuntu:~$ export TEST=TRUE
lanx@ubuntu:~$ perl -E 'say $ENV{TEST}'
TRUE

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In reply to Re: setenv in perl by LanX
in thread setenv in perl by dideod.yang

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