upgrading perl -ports

[Zan]

Hello,

Would you please help me?

in my /usr/local/bin I can clearly see that there is a newer version of 
perl (5.8.0) already there, but when I type 'perl -v' I see that I'm 
running off of 5.0. Is there anything else I can do besides trying the 
"use.perl port" command? Because that doesn't seem to work, and my jail 
did not come with a ports collection.

I would appreciate any help you can give me. Thank you!

-Zan