Can I run two versions of Perl on the same Windows box?

[Ru55ell]

Im developing a socket program that requires the Perl version to be older than the one on the box. Can I run two different versions of Perl on the same box?

The Socket.PM requires I use 5.000 and I am using v5.6.1 on the box.

 

[Kirsle]

You can have more than one version installed, but make sure you run your Perl scripts with the version of Perl you wanted to run them with... i.e.

Run with 5.0:
>C:/Perl-5-0/bin/perl.exe myscript.pl

Run with 5.6.1
>C:/Perl-5-6/bin/perl.exe myscript.pl

assuming those are the paths you installed the different Perl versions to.

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