Detecting Environment

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Oh wise ones,

I have several perl scripts that I'd like to have running on a Windows machine.
is there a way I can detect which environment I'm in (eg: Linux, Windows).
I'd like to be able to perform different functions depending on the environment.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated...
Thanks

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Re: Detecting Environment by toolic (Bishop) on Jan 28, 2009 at 19:42 UTC
$^O Update: After running a SuperSearch where title contains all of "window", "linux", this node pops up: how to recognize windows and linux os	[reply]
Re^2: Detecting Environment by Anonymous Monk on Jan 28, 2009 at 19:50 UTC
Thank you so much, I should have checked in the search first. Thanks	[reply]
Re: Detecting Environment by pileofrogs (Priest) on Jan 28, 2009 at 23:25 UTC
You might also want to peruse perlport. --Pileofrogs	[reply]