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in thread perl 4/5 version issues

Single quotes prints the same.

whence doesn't work, whereis perl shows path to Perl4.

Strange one, eh...

cLive ;-)

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Re: Re: perl 4/5 version issues
by lemming (Priest) on Jun 15, 2001 at 04:55 UTC
    Have you tried typing in the full path to perl for your test? /usr/bin/perl4 -e "print $]"
    I think I'll have to hunt down to make sure Perl4 behaved in the way you expect it to.

    Update:
    Ah ha. This has part of the answer:
    Why am I getting long decimals?
    Now I just need to find out why 5...

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      I think you're missing my point.

      If I type perl whatever, I expect the same binary to run. So why the peculiarity between perl -v or perl -e "print $]";.

      That's what I'm confused about...

      cLive ;-)

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