If that is to be run under Windows, you will need to - wrap your script into a batch-file using perl2bat

Does it really work? I'm not saying it doesn't, I just have a doubt. More specifically I've been using pl2bat and much to my surprise and disappointment I've noticed that I cannot use redirection of output (I had to add '-o' cmd line switches to "utilities" only moderately more complex than one-liners!). Don't know about input...

I would check by myself but I'm under Linux now and I won't have access to a Windoze machine up until this evening...