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Re: Checking for perl [message #52911 is a reply to message #52909]

Wed, 07 March 2007 07:03

Ben Panter
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Registered: July 2003

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David Fanning wrote:

> Maybe you could search the PATH environment variable for "perl":
>
> IDL> thePath = GetEnv('PATH')
> IDL> IF StrPos(StrUpCase(thePath), 'PERL\BIN') NE -1 $
> THEN Print, 'PERL is allowed'
>
> PERL is allowed
>
> Cheers,
>
> David

Thanks David - unfortunately that fails under linux when perl is aliased
rather than in the path. I think I probably just have to accept that I
need to write a multi-os code.

Cheers,

Ben

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		Re: Checking for perl By: Ben Panter on Wed, 07 March 2007 07:34
		Re: Checking for perl By: Ingo von Borstel on Wed, 07 March 2007 07:27
		Re: Checking for perl By: wlandsman@jhu.edu on Wed, 07 March 2007 07:22
		Re: Checking for perl By: David Fanning on Wed, 07 March 2007 07:18
		Re: Checking for perl By: Ben Panter on Wed, 07 March 2007 07:03
		Re: Checking for perl By: David Fanning on Wed, 07 March 2007 06:46

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