in reply to Perl Polyglot Problem

Any ideas why her installation gives this error, and mine (same ActiveState version) doesn't?
Your copy of warnings is broken and hers is working? Try to test it.

update: Also, you should contact perl5-porters about adding %~dpnx0 to pl2bat instead of just -S %0

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Re^2: Perl Polyglot Problem
by PhilHibbs (Hermit) on Mar 09, 2005 at 15:27 UTC
    Your copy of warnings is broken and hers is working? Try to test it.
    The first line (@rem=...)is executed with warnings not turned on, warnings only get turned on when the compiler gets past the use warnings; statement. It seems that her installation has warnings turned on by default.
    Also, you should contact perl5-porters about adding %~dpnx0 to pl2bat instead of just -S %0
    %0 is appropriate for .bat files, because that works on Windows 95 et al. Only Windows NT and descendants support the %~ syntax, but I am confident that my scripts won't need to run on Windows 95/98/Me.
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      It seems that her installation has warnings turned on by default.
      Wasn't that apparent before? I doubt the actual installation has warnings on by default. She's probably invoking csvsplit.cmd directly with perl (perl -w csvsplit.cmd) or she has a a perl.bat in her path which invokes perl.exe -w or something silly like that ...
      %0 is appropriate for .bat files, because that works on Windows 95 et al. Only Windows NT and descendants support the %~ syntax
      pl2bat already differentiates between 9x and NT, so the users of NT should have the benefit of not searching %PATH% again :)

      MJD says "you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"
      I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).
      ** The third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.

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        I'm sure that she didn't have Perl installed already, and she admitted to knowing nothing about perl, so wouldn't be running it herself. I even had to provide instructions on how to start a Command Prompt!
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