On Monday, June 10, 2002, at 12:58 , Batchelor, Scott wrote:
> I am using an exec command like this: > > Exec "perl.pl $variable" > > Scott if you ran that at the command line, #demo in /bin/sh constructs variable="arg1 arg2 arg3" perl.pl $variable then your perl code either needs to walk through these "command line arguments" directly with walking @ARGV OR you may wish to look at Getopt::Std and/or Getopt::Long to use the more traditional ways of grovelling through the @ARGV values - and dealing with what stuff is suppose to be there with what flags and all... does that help???? ciao drieux --- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]