Jeff, Thanks a lot for your reply. Acutally external APP was passing value to command prompt so the first option did work.
"Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Jul 22, Perl said: > > > what can be the syntex of assigning a variable (my $path) in perl which is > > taking value (for example c:\documents\script.txt) from an expternal APP. > > How is your program getting passed this value? On the command-line? If > so, then you would access the value from the @ARGV array. $ARGV[0] holds > the first argument, $ARGV[1] the second, and so on. > > my $path = $ARGV[0]; > > If it's being sent to your program via an input stream (the other program > is writing, and your Perl program needs to read), you'd get the value from > <STDIN>. > > chomp(my $path = <STDIN>); > > -- > Jeff "japhy" Pinyan % How can we ever be the sold short or > RPI Acacia Brother #734 % the cheated, we who for every service > http://japhy.perlmonk.org/ % have long ago been overpaid? > http://www.perlmonks.org/ % -- Meister Eckhart -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
