On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:10:48 -0500, Shawn H Corey wrote:
> abhi jain wrote:
>> I want to know which perl has called my program.
>>
>> For Ex : If I call perl program as bellow.
>>
>> # /usr/bin/perl5.8.5 prog.pl
>> I should get /usr/bin/perl5.8.5
>>
>> # /usr/bin/perl5.8.8 prog.pl
>> I should get /usr/bin/perl5.8.8
>>
> The version is stored in the special variable $^V that is, a dollar sign
> and control-V. The version and patch level is stored in $]
>
> my ( $major_version, $minor_version, $patch_level ) = $] =~ m{ \A (\d+)
> \. (\d\d\d) (\d\d\d) \z }msx;
>
> See `perldoc perlvar` and search for /\$\]/
> http://perldoc.perl.org/perlvar.html#%24]
And the path to the perl is in $^X :
$ perl -le ' print "$^V $] $^X"'
v5.10.0 5.010000 /usr/local/bin/perl
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