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in thread Getting current versions of Perl

ActiveState Perl 5.6.0 is not Perl 5.6.0. Try "perl -V" (capital "V") and you'll see something like "Locally applied patches:\tActivePerl Build 616". The fix for this bug is included in that patch.

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Re: (tye)Re9: Getting current versions of Perl
by premchai21 (Curate) on Mar 10, 2001 at 00:45 UTC
    You seem to be right. But that's odd... why would it be called 5.6.0 if it were not?

    I have build 623, in fact.

    As Douglas Adams said in "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe": "The Door would still be there, even if the door were not."

    Thanks.

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      What version number would you like it to report?? The version number is often only part of the story, which is why there is a "perl -V" option in the first place. (:

              - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")
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        Mmm... even under -V it says: Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 6 subversion 0) configuration: ...still mystified.
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