> perl myscript.pl "data1" "data2 "data3"
>
> (a) is it possible to pass data arguments via the command line in this
way?
Yes, indeed. Anything that is passed to your program in this way will be
stored in the array, @ARGV. You can access the first argument with
$ARGV[0], the second with $ARGV[1], and so on.
> (b) inside the script I want to assign them to variables -- but how do I
> reference them? Do they count as being on STDIN or something?
You can assign them at the beginning of your script usign the following:
my @theArguments = @ARGV #all of them in an array
-or-
my ($username, $password, $logfile, $filename) = @ARGV
# Expect 4 arguments
# Ignore the rest for now
