How do I launch the default web browser in Perl on any operating system?

Question

I want to open a URL, such as http://www.example.com/, at the end of a Perl script. I don\'t want to access it with WWW::Mechanize but actually show the web page to

Answer 1

The second hit on "open url" at search.cpan brings up Browser::Open:

use Browser::Open qw( open_browser );

my $url = 'http://www.google.com/';
open_browser($url);

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