The revision, version, and subversion of the Perl interpreter, represented as a version
object.
This variable first appeared in perl 5.6.0; earlier versions of perl will see an undefined value. Before perl 5.10.0 $^V was represented as a v-string.
$^V can be used to determine whether the Perl interpreter executing a script is in the right range of versions. (Mnemonic: use ^V for Version Control.) Example:
warn "Hashes not randomized!\n" if !$^V or $^V lt v5.8.1
To convert $^V
into its string representation use sprintf()'s "%vd"
conversion:
printf "version is v%vd\n", $^V; # Perl's version
See the documentation of use VERSION
and require VERSION
for a convenient way to fail if the running Perl interpreter is too old.
See also $]
for an older representation of the Perl version.