in reply to Check for another program availability
Hello hrcerq,
I see nothing too bad in your approach. For sure is not a portable way. But you can use File::Spec to split on the correct separator and catfile in a more portable way.
Then you can profit of the cpan module File::SearchPath to accomplish the search.
L*
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