[Catalyst] Catalyst calendar/2005/10, TIMTOWTDI, determining the perl version

[A. Pagaltzis]

* Karl Gaissmaier <karl.gaissmaier at uni-ulm.de> [2006-01-24 18:25]:
>just stumbled over the following *nix line:
>
>perlversion=`perl -v | grep 'built for' | awk '{print $4}' | sed -e 's/v//;'`
>
>TIMTOWTDI
>
>perlversion=`perl -e 'printf("%vd", $^V)'`

    eval `echo -n perl; perl -V:version`

Though that doesn’t produce *exactly* the same output.

Regards,
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