SPUG: geting the perl version

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Jan 25, 2006, Atom Powers 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.

If you're doing this from the shell, this should set a shell
variable, version:

eval `perl -V:version`

Bill
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