this is what i use for all my scripts. note there are 2 underscores "_"
before and after FILE
my $program_name = __FILE__;
$program_name =~ s/^.*\///; # remove all path, leaving only actual
program name
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 1:52 PM, <pdfe...@aep.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am about as noob as you can get so please forgive my complete naivete.
>
> I have jumped into the world of perl with both feet and have gotten hung
> up on a seemingly
> trivial matter. In *NIX shell scripting, the variable $0 refers to the
> zeroth command line parameter,
> i.e., the program itself. I would like to use something like this in my
> perl scripts. Is there an
> equivalent to this in perl?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul Feeny
>
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