ActivePerl is a distribution of

Perl Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Though Perl is not officially an acronym, there are various backronyms in use, including "Practical Extraction and Reporting Language". Perl was developed ...

from ActiveState (formerly part of

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) for

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, Solaris, AIX and

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. A few main editions are available, including: Community (free, for development use only), and several paid tiers up to Enterprise that includes support for OEM licensing. It includes a version of the Perl package manager (PPM) for installing packages from

CPAN The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) is a software repository of over 220,000 software modules and accompanying documentation for 45,500 distributions, written in the Perl programming language by over 14,500 contributors. ''CPAN'' can de ...

, etc. The Windows version includes an Active Scripting component for

Windows Script Host The Microsoft Windows Script Host (WSH) (formerly named Windows Scripting Host) is an automation technology for Microsoft Windows operating systems that provides scripting abilities comparable to batch files, but with a wider range of supported fe ...

(WSH) called PerlScript and an

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module for embedding within

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(IIS).

PerlScript

PerlScript was initially solely an

ActiveX ActiveX is a deprecated software framework created by Microsoft that adapts its earlier Component Object Model (COM) and Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) technologies for content downloaded from a network, particularly from the World Wide W ...

Scripting Engine produced by the company ActiveState for use with Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS) that allows for programmers to use Perl-based code in addition to, or in place of,

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in the context of web servers running the ASP protocol. Subsequentl
Apache::ASP
was created for the

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web server, which allows for coding with only Perl, but neither VBScript nor JScript. PerlScript can also be used to write Windows Script Host-based programs, similar to VBScript. Standalone PerlScripts can be executed if they are created with the file extension .pls, in which case they do not require enclosing

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, e.g. use strict; our $WScript; $WScript->Echo("Hello, world!"); .pls files do not gain access to drag and drop WSH functionality. PerlScripts which have the extension wsf require XML tags which specify the job id and script language, e.g. wsf PerlScripts gain access to WSH drag and drop functionality, similarly to Perl Droplets in the now-obsolete MacPerl. Most WSH objects are available via the implicitly created $WScript object.

References

External links

*
Introduction to PerlScript

at ActiveState {{DEFAULTSORT:ActivePerl Perl Perl software Scripting languages

PerlScript

See also

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