They never complain because Windows doesnt do shebang file type association. Instead it uses the file extension and the registry. The only part that is relevent is the "-w" part which turns on warnings.

My bet is that you are using a relatively recent version of perl (probably an Activestate build) and accordingly you can lose that as well and use the more powerful 

use warnings;

[download]
instead.

Incidentlly its sort of good form when posting to include a shebang line that should work on most standard *NIX boxes. #!/usr/bin/perl If only to make our *NIX brethren's lives a bit easier... Although i have to admit I usually dont out of forgetfulness.

Oh yeah, its possible that if you are doing CGI stuff that the webserver does know about shebangs, in which case it probably makes sense to include it.

HTH

Yves / DeMerphq
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Writing a good benchmark isnt as easy as it might look.

In reply to Re: #!/usr/bin/perl -w by demerphq
in thread #!/usr/bin/perl -w by Anonymous Monk

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