ActiveState on windoze requires some 'extra fiddling' to get the command
line params to actually make it into @ARGV
On my winnt box I followed the directions ActiveState provided under
'Windows Quirks' under the getting started section
Basicall you modify the .pl file extension from {full path to perl}\perl.exe
to
{full path to perl}\perl.exe %1 %*HTH "Dennis G. Wicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Greetings; > > Are you using ActiveState perl? > > I just did extensive testing using ActiveState perl on XP-Pro > and I get the exact same results. > > C:\DATAFI~1>argv.pl testfile > > gives the unitialized variable message but > > C:\DATAFI~1>perl argv.pl testfile > > works as expected. > > I also tested with cygwin perl and the results were also as > expected so this appears to be a bug in ActiveState perl. > > So, this is a good news / bad news thing; your code is OK, > but AS perl is broke! Take this over to the ActiveState perl > list and see if anyone has an answer or even knows about it. > > (I just tried to look up the address but the AS perl web > page is broken at the moment! Go to > http://www.activestate.com/ > and look for "Mailing lists" on the right side.) > > Good Luck! > Dennis > > > > On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote: > > > Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 08:29:45 -0400 (EDT) > > From: Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: Larry Wissink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Confused about supplying command line arguments and using > > @ARGV > > > > On Jun 2, Larry Wissink said: > > > > >I want to supply the name of a file on the command line when executing a > > >script. Unfortunately, I'm getting an error that says that @ARGV is > > >uninitialized. > > > > > >How do you initialize @ARGV? How do you specify command line arguments? > > > > You don't initialize @ARGV. It gets whatever arguments are passed to your > > program. You send your program arguments by placing them after the > > program name. > > > > >C:\Perl\my_scripts>argv_test.pl cookies.txt > > > > Have you tried calling it as > > > > perl argv_test.pl cookies.txt > > > > I'm just curious because I don't trust Windows. > > > > >use warnings; > > > > > >#push @ARGV, "cookie.txt"; # when uncommented script works fine. > > > > > >my $name = $ARGV[0]; > > >print $name; > > > > > >open (INFILE, $name); > > >while (<INFILE>) { > > > print $_; > > >} > > >close INFILE; > > > > That code looks ok to me. > > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
