ActivePerl is a distribution of

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from

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(formerly part of Sophos) for

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, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX. 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, 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

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Scripting Engine produced by the company ActiveState for use with

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Internet Information Services (IIS) that allows for programmers to use Perl-based code in addition to, or in place of,

VBScript VBScript (''"Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition"'') is an Active Scripting language developed by Microsoft that is modeled on Visual Basic. It allows Microsoft Windows system administrators to generate powerful tools for managing computers ...

JScript JScript is Microsoft's legacy dialect of the ECMAScript standard that is used in Microsoft's Internet Explorer 11 and older. JScript is implemented as an Active Scripting engine. This means that it can be "plugged in" to OLE Automation applic ...

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

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