i'm using winxppro, perl 5.6.1. here's my test_cmdline.pl:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use diagnostics;
$|++;

for my $line (@ARGV)
{
    print $line;
}
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c:\>perl test_cmdline.pl one two three
onetwothree
c:\>
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~Particle ;Þ

well, use strict; would have caught the typo ( print should be { print

This is a syntax error - the program would have failed to compile with or without use strict;. It is much safer to cut and paste example code than to retype it :)

/J\

Actually I do have the ";" after the " print $line" command.
The type-o was in my message post.

It's a known problem with the windows shell and file associations (its not just XP but NT and 2000 as well) - you will find that it will work fine if you run the program as 'perl test.pl one two three'. One solution is to use the progran 'pl2bat' that is included with ActivePerl, this will wrap your Perl program as a batch file which can be executed directly and which doesn't suffer from the ARGV problem.

/J\

It may be a know problem, but not on my w2k box. I just ran this:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

for (@ARGV) {
    for (glob) {
        print $_,"\n";
    }
}
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and it worked as expected. The command line was 'pal.pl * web\*.pgn'.

–hsm

"Never try to teach a pig to sing…it wastes your time and it annoys the pig."

Thank you!

That was the correct resolution.
Running the script as "perl test.pl one two three"
returned the correct values.