Nkuipers wrote: >>My question then, is how do you pass variables to perl script from the >>Unix command line and how are those variables processed within the script? >>More than likely, the variables will need to be passed to either an array >>or hash. > > Well, there are two main ways I know of to pass vars to Perl from the > command > line. The first is where the entire script is contained on the command > line, > affectionately known as a "one-liner". The second uses an array called > @ARGV, > which takes arguments passed after perl scriptname, in order. For
some people perfer to set their args in the env. variable like: $export WHATEVER=1234 and then in their script: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; print "hi, i got: $ENV{'WHATEVER'} from you\n"; __END__ personally, i don't like it. david -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]