Wow, so your bringing my version of perl into question. I have found 3 versions of perl on our system, and perhaps ther are more, but I get three different responses to the -v option. When I run:

/apollo/env/fulfillmentCenter/var/apps/perl -v

I get

This is perl, v5.8.8 built for Linux-2.4c2.3-i686-64int
                                                                      
+                                                       
Copyright 1987-2006, Larry Wall
                                                                      
+                                                       
Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License
+ or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source ki
+t.
                                                                      
+                                                       
Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found 
+on
this system using "man perl" or "perldoc perl".  If you have access to
+ the
Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.org/, the Perl Home Pa
+ge.

[download]

and when I run

/usr/bin/perl -v

I get

This is perl, v5.8.0 built for i386-linux-thread-multi
(with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)
 
Copyright 1987-2002, Larry Wall
 
Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License
+ or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source ki
+t.
 
Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found 
+on
this system using `man perl' or `perldoc perl'.  If you have access to
+ the
Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.com/, the Perl Home Pa
+ge.

[download]

and when I run the version that is in my perl script:

/opt/third-party/bin/perl -v

I get

This is perl, v5.6.0 built for Linux-2.4c2.3-i686
 
Copyright 1987-2000, Larry Wall
 
Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License
+ or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5.0 source 
+kit.
 
Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found 
+on
this system using `man perl' or `perldoc perl'.  If you have access to
+ the
Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.com/, the Perl Home Pa
+ge.

[download]

Which is not even the latest version. I'm going to my internal people on this one.

In reply to Re^2: Processing ARGV by kmullin
in thread Processing ARGV by kmullin

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