You can also read on all the special variables in Perl by typing 'perldoc perlvar' on your shell, or at http://perldoc.perl.org/perlvar.html
2009/8/21 Erez Schatz <moonb...@gmail.com>: > 2009/8/21 <pdfe...@aep.com>: >> 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? >> > > (un)surprisingly enough, it's $0. > -- Erez "The government forgets that George Orwell's 1984 was a warning, and not a blueprint" http://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/ -- http://www.whyweprotest.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/