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joec_ has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, am i missing something? I have this code:

$molfile=shift || die ('script takes one arg from CL');

And when i call it like

./service.pl file.txt

I always get the die error message displayed. I have to explicitly say

$molfile = $ARGV[0] || die.....;

to get it to work.

This is a bit strange as i have the same code in a different file that works...

Any thoughts?

Thanks
Joe.