On Sunday, June 30, 2002, at 10:14 , Ankit Gupta wrote: [..] > I was trying the following through command line > > c:\> perl abc.pl folder1\folder2 folder3\folder4 > > but in script I am just able to get folder1\folder2 where as I need both > folder1\folder2 and folder3\folder4 separately in different variables. > > Is there any method to achieve this.
actually several. a) @ARGV is the array of things passed in from the commandline so you might start small with something simple like - forgive my unixisms - #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $count=0; for my $arg (@ARGV) { print "We have \$arg set to $arg as $count in the ARGV\n"; $count++; } b) perldoc Getopt::Std c) perldoc Getopt::Long some basic demonstration types can be found also at: Don't PANIC that this looks a bit weird - since I have code that creates code that we run - it's simpler for me to do that.... http://www.wetware.com/drieux/pbl/Sys/NextStuff/getOptStd.txt cf: http://www.wetware.com/drieux/pbl/Sys/NextStuff/AutoGinCmd.txt ciao drieux --- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]