BrowserUK, thanks for the note. we may be getting somewhere, because the path shows a path to a Perl that i have in XAMPP, not in C:/perl64/bin. Ikegami said that I might have two Perls installed, and so I do. This is what I got:

C:\Perl64\bin>Hello_world_test.pl
Hello, world!
C:\xampp\perl\bin\perl.exe
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The Xampp Perl does not have the lib with the strict.pm; the Perl64 lib does. Seeing this, I tried to change the path in the Perl file to:

#!c:/perl64/bin/perl.exe
print "Hello, world!\n";
print "$^X\n";
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with the result:

'Hello_world_test_1.pl' is not recognized as an internal or external c
+ommand operable program or batch file.
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so, how do I make it go to the C:/perl64/bin/?

Thanks for any help

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