SPUG: geting the perl version

[Atom Powers]

Thank you, that does whan I want.
But still doesn't work from within my application.

On 1/25/06, Colin Meyer <cmeyer at helvella.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 10:35:00AM -0800, jerry gay wrote:
> > On 1/25/06, Atom Powers <atom.powers at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I want to do this: `/usr/bin/perl -V:version | /usr/bin/cut -d "'" -f
> > > 2` without using pipes or quotes; is that possible? (for some reason
> > > my application isn't executing this correctly)
> > >
> > > That is; I am looking for a simple way to get just the version number
> > > wihout any padding. Something like "5.8.7" or "5.0.6" or whatever.
> >
> >
> >
> > maybe this will help:
> >   perl -MConfig -e"print $Config{version}"
>
> Most shells interpolate $variables within double quotes, so this
> may work better for you:
>
>   perl -MConfig -le'print $Config{version}'
>
> -Colin.
>


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