in reply to command line arguments?

You might also want to look at Getopt::Long and Getopt::Std as modules for doing this "correctly".

dave hj~

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Re: Re: command line arguments?
by Joost (Canon) on May 23, 2002 at 10:08 UTC
    Also, you might want to take a peek at Pod::Usage for creating help messages with variable verbosity.

    This might be overkill for your program, but I found it very useful for larger tools. 

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