in reply to Using perl.exe from a non standard location

You can always specify the path to the perl executable when launching the script instead of just "perl" or "perl.exe". 
>c:\progs\perl588\bin\perl -le"print $]"
5.008008

>c:\progs\perl5101\bin\perl -le"print $]"
5.010001

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