Finding Perl's program PATH

neutron has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to create a program with basic portability and need to identify the program PATH. On my windows system it's C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe

I thought the easiest to determine this would be using $ENV{PATH} but when I do, I get several directories instead of just the one I'm looking for.

Any ideas???

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Re: Finding Perl's program PATH by jethro (Monsignor) on Oct 12, 2011 at 21:02 UTC
The environment variable PATH contains all paths that have executables, i.e. are searched for executables when you input a command on the command line, it is not the path of the perl executable. What you want is $^X. See perlvar	[reply]
Re: Finding Perl's program PATH by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Oct 12, 2011 at 21:03 UTC
`C:\test>perl -E"say $^X" C:\Perl64\bin\perl.exe` [download] Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Finding Perl's program PATH by neutron (Sexton) on Oct 14, 2011 at 14:52 UTC
Thank you, both of you. This is perfect!!	[reply]