It's dumb but I need an answer

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

Is it possible to pass variable values to a perl program directly from the DOS command line? I'm thinking of a notation like this: c:\>perl myscript 10 where 10 is the value that my script wants to use. Please help. Thanks.

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Re: It's dumb but I need an answer by bmcatt (Friar) on Apr 18, 2002 at 16:15 UTC
Repeat after me: `@ARGV` is my friend...	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: It's dumb but I need an answer by Anonymous Monk on Apr 18, 2002 at 16:33 UTC
Thanks for solving my problem! Now I can get on with my life.	[reply]
Re: It's dumb but I need an answer by pepik_knize (Scribe) on Apr 18, 2002 at 16:25 UTC
perldoc perlvar, look for @ARGV	[reply]
Re: Re: It's dumb but I need an answer by Anonymous Monk on Apr 18, 2002 at 16:35 UTC
Thanks for solving my problem! I've been scanning through books about it, going nuts.	[reply]
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