Default Perl vs. perlbrew version on macOS Sierra 10.12.4

Question

I'm tryng to instruct my system to permanently use perlbrew version of perl in my shells as per perlbrew documentation with:

perlbrew switch perl-5.26.0

which should use ~/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.26.0/bin/perl in every new open shell. But when I close and reopen iTerm2 and ask

perl -v

the answer is

This is perl 5, version 24, subversion 1 (v5.24.1) built for darwin-thread-multi-2level

which is system perl, in the path /usr/local/Cellar/perl/5.24.1/bin/perl

No chances to swith to different perl release other than current shell.

I have in my .bash_profile: source ~/perl5/perlbrew/etc/bashrc

as per perlbrew instructions

What am I missing to have permanently perl switched to desired version?

Thank you

I guess it DOES, since there are no reported error messages at shell login — Daniele, Jul 22 '17 at 12:34
Please test this for me: Enter `bash -l` and try again. (That's a lowercase "L") — ikegami, Jul 22 '17 at 16:10

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 24 '17 at 14:48

Ok, after googling and struggling, I got to a solution at last. I started all it over again from Perlbrew documentation, and I did:

source ~/perl5/perlbrew/etc/bashrc

to my .bash_profile file.

Now, at last, every new shell opens with desired perlbrew switched perl version.

Thank you all, hope this can be useful.

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