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When you launch Perl via the .pl association, @INC contains only ".". When you launch Perl via the PATH, it contains the three items it should. You appear to have two Perls installed.

What do you get from 

>assoc .pl
.pl=Perl

>ftype Perl
Perl="C:\Perl64\bin\perl.exe" "%1" %*

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(Replace "Perl" in the second command with what's right of the "=" in the output of the first.)

If you don't get the same output, you can fix it using 

ftype Perl="C:\Perl64\bin\perl.exe" "%1" %*

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(Again, replace "Perl" with the appropriate value.)

Update: Cleanup. Added fix.

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Re^10: Flummoxed by strict.pm
by CaptainRob (Novice) on May 08, 2010 at 16:13 UTC

    Thanks ikegami for providing some insight

    This is what I got:

    C:\>assoc .pl
File association not found for extension .pl

C:\>.pl=Perl
'.pl' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\>assoc .pl=Perl
Access is denied.
Error occurred while processing: .pl.

C:\>ftype Perl
File type 'Perl' not found or no open command associated with it.

C:\>ftype Perl="C:\Perl64\bin\perl.exe" "%1" %*
File type 'Perl' not found or no open command associated with it.

C:\>cd..

C:\>cd perl64

C:\Perl64>cd bin

C:\Perl64\bin>assoc .pl
File association not found for extension .pl

C:\Perl64\bin>

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    I am probably misinterpreting what you're asking me to do. But thanks for your interest and patience

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      What? As far as I know, the following would indicate that your Windows doesn't know how to execute .pl files: 
      C:\>assoc .pl
File association not found for extension .pl

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      But you showed it executing a .pl right here: 

      C:\Perl64\bin>entities_99.pl
Can't locate strict.pm in @INC (@INC contains: .) at C:\Perl64\bin\ent
+ities_99.pl line 2.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:\Perl64\bin\entities_99.pl line
+ 2.

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      Is that actually what you typed? I noticed you just typed "en" later on. What's "en"?
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        Thanks again for pursuing this thread, ikegami

        So that I would be sure that I had perl working, I did a hello world as follows:

        #!/usr/bin/perl -w
print "Hello, world!\n";

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        For which I got this:

        C:\Perl64\bin>Hello_world_test.pl
Hello, world!

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        Naturally, I added a 'use strict;' line as follows to the script:

        #!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
print "Hello, world!\n";

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        For which I got:

        C:\Perl64\bin>Hello_world_test.pl
Can't locate strict.pm in @INC (@INC contains: .) at C:\Perl64\bin\Hel
+lo_world_t
est.pl line 2.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:\Perl64\bin\Hello_world_test.pl
+ line 2.

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        I can find strict.pm in lib, but apparently Perl can't

        Does this suggest an approach? If you are bored with this thread, I shall certainly understand.

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