On Thursday, April 11, 2002, at 01:53 , Mike wrote:
> If a program calls a perl script as follows: /tmp/perltest.pl abc def ghi > jkl mno > > Is there a variable which would contain the arguments? yes @ARGV - in your case you would be able to play something like my $count=1; foreach my $arg (@ARGV) { print "Argument $count is $arg\n" count++ } for the first round of them.... you most likely will want to perdoc Getopt::Long perdoc Getopt::Std to go into more detail about command line argument parsing. ciao drieux --- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]