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

I'm working on porting some code that I created on Unix to ActivePerl on Windows 2000. I'm testing out the chunks that I need and in the process have run into a problem of sorts. I'm attempting to access @ARGV and the test program keeps coming back that the @ARGV array is empty.

use warnings;
my @rray=(1,2,3,4,5);
print "\@ARGV is @ARGV\n";
print "\@rray is @rray\n";

__END__

C:\temp\Perl>test2.pl 1 2 3 4 5
@ARGV is
@rray is 1 2 3 4 5

C:\temp\Perl>

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Does anyone have any thoughts as to where the problem might be? The version of Perl that we have is 5.6.0 build 613. Thanks.

"Ex libris un peut de tout"

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Re: Problem with @ARGV in Win32 Perl
by blokhead (Monsignor) on Jul 24, 2003 at 20:18 UTC
    I'd be willing to bet that the following would work as you expect: 
    C:\temp\Perl>c:\path\to\perl.exe test2.pl 1 2 3 4 5
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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    The problem is likely in the way .pl files are associated with the perl interpreter. It looks like at least on NT, you need to do: 
        ASSOC .pl=PerlScript
    FTYPE PerlScript=c:\path\to\perl.exe %1 %*

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    If you had forgotten the %* part, perl would never receive the additional arguments to pass to your script.. YMMV with Windows 2000, though.

    blokhead

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      Make that: 

      FTYPE PerlScript=c:\path\t­o\perl.exe "%1" %*

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      so that it works when clicking on Perl scripts who have spaces in their path/name. And that is correct for Win2k.

                      - tye
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      OK, that gives me a good idea what to fix. Thanks.

      "Ex libris un peut de tout"
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