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

Hi all , I am trying to parse my input from a command line, I am doing 
while(@ARGV)
{
$arg = shift(@ARGV)
}

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it work fine but if i have this "C:\Sara\file\doc", then it read me only C:Sarafiledoc, why is it doing this , am I doing it wrong . thanks

2002-06-27 Edit by Corion : Moved to Seekers of Perl Wisdom; added formatting; changed title

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Re: command line
by belg4mit (Prior) on Jun 27, 2002 at 01:50 UTC
    It's not, you're using some form of interpolating quotes, \ escapes certain characters, invalid escape sequences return the original character. The \ get wiped out in the output.

    You probably want to look at using Getopt::Std or Getopt::Long

    --
    perl -pew "s/\b;([mnst])/'$1/g"

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