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I'm a big fan of using shift for taking command line arguments. This way, they get assingned in the order that they were passed in. Just one less thing to debug.

thor

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Re: Re: Re: about while() combine with ARGV
by japhy (Canon) on Feb 19, 2002 at 14:00 UTC
    Except that since the first element of @ARGV is the one he wants to keep, he'd have to then put it back somehow.

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      perhaps unshift? or maybe pop the arguments off in the first place... TMTOWTDI!

      ~Particle

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