Thanks very much. That's the answer I was looking for. Where did you find all the information on how the #! works anyhow? I'd like to read up on it more. Also, I believe that perl ignores the -w switch (referring to your question above..). I ran some tests by requiring an executible perl script from within another perl script. The required perl script has the -w switch on the shebang line. When I run the main script, everything is ok. Nothing is printed to stderr or stdout. However, if I modify the script that is being imported by removing the -w switch, and instead insert the "use warnings" pragma, then a warning is printed to stderr. This leads me to believe that the shebang line in the imported file is ignored.

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