Okay. I added the missing semicolon and no change. I will go the hash
route. The shell script that runs this passes the variable to the PERL
script. Thanks for all the quick replies.
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Michael Tiernan <michael.tier...@gmail.com
> wrote:
> I'm *NOT* good at this so I'll just pose a couple of questions to see if
> it helps....
>
> What do you get for values if you add thse two lines?
>
> print "$ARGV[0]\n"; #this prints the correct variable
>>
>
> print "school=$school\n";
> $school="blank";
>
> if ($ARGV[0] == "rc") {$school = "rc"} #This line is the only line
>> evaluated. I always get this value
>> elsif ($ARGV[0] == "bp") {$school = "bp";}
>>
>
> The other thing I'd want to look at is the actual contents of the entire
> string "$ARGV[0]", is it just those two characters or is it null terminated?
>
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