Thanks my man, does the trick. May I ask a few questions on your solution though... I am going to comment it on your code and maybe you can correct me where I am wrong.
my @array; # this an array to store the good arguments for (@ARGV) { # for the argumets array if (-e) { # if the file exists push @array, $_;# push the file that exists onto the @array # why use $_ here? next; # what purpose has this } warn qq{"$_" doesn't exist!}; } @ARGV = @array;
I Appreciate the time you took to answer my question to man.

In reply to Re^2: how to deal with incorrect command line argument by scripter87
in thread how to deal with incorrect command line argument by scripter87

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