Re: passing parameters to Perl script

[Brett W. McCoy]

On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Scott Taylor wrote:

> How can I pass parameters from *nix command line to a Perl script?
>   Like $1 in shell scripting.
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
>
> $myfile = $1;

This will:

my $file = $ARGV[0];

@ARGV contains all of the command-line parameters.

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