[PLUG] Perl & command line arguments

[Jeff DeFouw]

On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Fred Davis wrote:

> I have one question: Is it possible to get a Perl script to recognize
> command line arguments (like $1, $2 in a shell script)? Or would I have to
> add this functionality through a shell script that would call the Perl
> script?

Command line arguments are stored in @ARGV, so:

$1 in shell -> $ARGV[0] in perl
$2 in shell -> $ARGV[1] in perl
etc. scalar(@ARGV) = # of args, $#ARGV = index # of last arg

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Jeff DeFouw <defouwj@purdue.edu>