Detecting Whether Your Script Is Running on Windows or UNIX using $^O : is_windows « System Functions « Perl

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2. System Functions
3. is_windows

Detecting Whether Your Script Is Running on Windows or UNIX using $^O

  

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

if (is_windows() ) {
    print "We are running under Windows.\n";
    
}

print "The OS name is $^O\n";

sub is_windows() {
    return $^O =~ /^(MS)?Win/;
}

   
    
  

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