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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Re: passing parameters to Perl script

[Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan]

On Jun 28, Scott Taylor said:

>How can I pass parameters from *nix command line to a Perl script?
>  Like $1 in shell scripting.

You want the @ARGV array.  $ARGV[0] is the first argument to your
program.  Check the 'perlvar' documentation for more about @ARGV.

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passing parameters to Perl script

[Scott Taylor]

Hello,

How can I pass parameters from *nix command line to a Perl script?
  Like $1 in shell scripting.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

$myfile = $1;

doesn't work.

Thanks.

Scott