Re^2: Simnple script not working

That's not the case. Perl on Windows parses the line for command-line-like flags because it has to (so -w and -l and -T and so forth will work), but since Perl is already running, it doesn't care about what binary the script claims should be invoked.

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Re^3: Simnple script not working - Perl on XP by syphilis (Archbishop) on Jan 12, 2011 at 07:14 UTC
it doesn't care about what binary the script claims should be invoked Interestingly enough, it does care about the name of the binary, but only to the extent that it matches `/perl/i`. If you try running a script that begins with `#! xxxxx` (where 'xxxxx' stands for any string of characters that does not match `/perl/i`) then all you'll get is a "Can't exec xxxxx ...." error. This wasn't always the case, but has been since at least perl-5.8.0 Update: And if 'xxxxx' happens to be the name of a non-perl binary that does get found, then things might (or might not) get a little crazy: `C:\_32\pscrpt>type try.pl #! gcc -w print "ok\n"; C:\_32\pscrpt>perl try.pl C:\_32\pscrpt>try.pl: file not recognized: File format not recognized collect2: ld returned 1 exit status C:\_32\pscrpt>` [download] Cheers, Rob	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Simnple script not working - Perl on XP by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jan 11, 2011 at 18:55 UTC
I believe one of the major web servers uses that info, so while the switch wouldn't help in this situation, it could help in others.	[reply]