hey !!! do you celebrate only perl even in the christmas vacation !!! Take a break !! Have a kit kat christmas cake. Merry Christmas to this perl group !!!!
Rajeev -----Original Message----- From: John McKown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 26, 2003 11:08 PM To: Perl Beginners Mailing List Subject: Hi & a question I'm new here and a very novice Perl coder. And I have a question, of course <grin>. Is it more "Perl-like" to get information from the shell via UNIX Environment Variables or via the command line? For an example, I have writing a Perl program which reacts to messages sent to it. It has four input parameters. The current program gets this information, which is two distinct subdirectories, a port number, and an IP address, via four different environment variables. My question is should I do it that way or should I pass this information in via the command line. E.g. export DIR1=... export DIR2=... export IPADDR=... export IPPORT=... perl-script.perl or perl-script.perl DIR1 DIR2 IPADDR IPPORT Although my current code uses the first way, I'm beginning to think that the second is preferrable because it would be more portable to non-UNIX environments. I hope everybody is having a good holiday. -- Maranatha! John McKown -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
