On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Pedro A Reche Gallardo wrote:
> I am writing a program that creates a file and write some data into it
> using the usual
> open (OUT, ">filename") or die "can't open file '$file'\n"; way
>
> but, how can I make the program to create a file with a name that is
> given as one of
> the program inputs?
>
> In other words if I execute the program as it follows:
>
> program.pl input1 input2 filename.out
>
> program.pl should use take input1 and input2, do the job, and write the
> data to a new file named "filename.out".
All of the arguments to your program go into an array @ARGV. You need
only to get the args out of there. $0, BTW, holds the program name used
on the command-line.
-- Brett
http://www.chapelperilous.net/btfwk/
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