>My question then, is how do you pass variables to perl script from the Unix >command line and how are those variables processed within the script? More >than likely, the variables will need to be passed to either an array or hash.
Well, there are two main ways I know of to pass vars to Perl from the command line. The first is where the entire script is contained on the command line, affectionately known as a "one-liner". The second uses an array called @ARGV, which takes arguments passed after perl scriptname, in order. For example: %perl yourscript filename someinteger # $ARGV[0] contains filename # $ARGV[1] contained someinteger Within your script, for this example, you could access the vars as above, by index, or say something like my $file = shift; #shifts off of @ARGV my $int = shift; #shifts off of @ARGV again There are also a couple of modules by the name of GetOpt::Std and GetOpt::Long that you may find very useful for parameter passing etc. Regards, Nathanael Kuipers -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
