in reply to .pl or shebang

Yes, it works exactly as you think: the shebang line is ignored on windows, and script is identified by extension .pl, which is stored in registry and associated to perl executable.

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Re^2: .pl or shebang
by syphilis (Archbishop) on May 15, 2009 at 06:38 UTC
    the shebang line is ignored on windows

    Not ignored *completely*. Switches such as '-l', '-w', and '-T', are honoured - and, last time I checked, the shebang line (if present) had to match the string 'perl'.

    Cheers,
    Rob
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      yup 
      C:\>perl
#!/usr/bin/PYTHON -T --
Can't exec /usr/bin/PYTHON at - line 1.

C:\>

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        From perlrun:

        If the #! line does not contain the word "perl", the program named after the #! is executed instead of the Perl interpreter. This is slightly bizarre, but it helps people on machines that don’t do #!, because they can tell a program that their SHELL is /usr/bin/perl, and Perl will then dispatch the program to the correct interpreter for them.

        (just in case anyone wondered what's going on...)

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      "-T" in the file will not work. You have to change the executable path in the registry and add it or call it from the cmdline: "perl -T foo.pl"
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        It will work :) 
        C:\>perl
#!perl -T --
"-T" is on the #! line, it must also be used on the command line at - 
+line 1.

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