in reply to Converting VBScript to PerlScipt
VBScript has two types of arguments... Named and Anonymous and they are provided as follows:
C:> cscript.exe /nologo script.vbs /CycleDate:01-12-2005 /Test:2 Arg1 +Arg2 Arg3
This results in three Collection Objects Arguments(), Arguments.Named() and Arguments.UnNamed()
These will have elements
'VBScript, not Perl Arguments.Named("CycleDate") 'value="1-12-2005" Arguments.Named("Test") 'value="2"
There should be three elements of Arguments.UnNamed() with values "Arg1", "Arg2" and "Arg3".
Documented at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/script56/html/wslrfnamedproperty.asp
If you're converting you might use Getopt::Long - then you'd have GetOptions( "CycleDate"=>\$cycledate ...) or warn...
HTH -- Mark
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