Re: Re: how to detect whether script is being run on Windows at runtime?

$^O

$^O is determined when perl is compiled. It's the platform perl was compiled on, and that isn't necessarily the platform it runs on.

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Re: Re: Re: how to detect whether script is being run on Windows at runtime? by Fletch (Bishop) on May 10, 2004 at 18:56 UTC
True, but `perlport` also gives a snippet using `Win32::GetOSVersion()` to distinguish between different flavours thereof.	[reply] [d/l] [select]