in reply to Re: Re: Getting args
in thread Getting args

I think you may be a little confused.

$ARGV[0]=$d;

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This overwrites the first command line argument with the value of $d - which is undefined.

shift=$d;

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This doesn't even compile.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Getting args
by monk2b (Pilgrim) on Dec 11, 2001 at 21:38 UTC
    I was a lot confused 
    #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my $d;
$d = shift; #this wiill work
print "$d\n"; #will print argument

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    OR
    #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;

die "argument required\n" unless defined $ARGV[0]; # will stop the scr
+ipt if there is no argument
print "This is what I ment $ARGV[0]\n";

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    I screwed that one up good. This is better and tested
    learning too monk2b
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