On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, eric wang wrote:
> I am trying to take this optional parameter into my perl script.
> I use a hypen (-) to indicate that it's a parameter. However, how do i get
> rid of that hyphen? so for example:
> myexe -hello -world -1 when entered into my script it becomes
>
> just ARGV[0] = hello
> ARG[1]=world
> ARG[2]=1
You might want to take a look at Getopt::Long, which can handle
command-line options like this rather easily, and in a standard way, and
you don't need to worry about the dashes.
perldoc Getopt::Long
-- Brett
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