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in thread Flummoxed by strict.pm

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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Re^11: Flummoxed by strict.pm
by ikegami (Patriarch) on May 08, 2010 at 17:45 UTC
    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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        What output do you get if you add this to the end of your Hello_world_test.pl script? 

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

print "$^X\n";

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        I don't know how Windows knows to execute Perl for .pl for you*, and I don't know which Perl it finds, but I suspect that the following will work without error: 
        C:\Perl64\bin>perl Hello_world_test.pl

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        If so, you might find $^X to differ depending on whether you launch the script via the extension (no leading "perl") or via the path (with leading "perl").

        * — I suspect the association is there, but the same permission issue that's preventing you changing it is also silently preventing you from seeing it.

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