If it is reasonably efficient to pass lots of values to perl as a list of parameters, then that's fine by me

I think I might have been affected by programming using old shells where a maximum of 9 parameters could be passed

I can't use a file to hold anything... I just have to hookup to a web process that will trigger my perl proggie and send it lots and lots (well, a few dozen mebbe... but that is a lot, to me) or values.

My question was, I guess, is there is a way to pack these into just a few parameters, and unpack them in my perl proggie to get the full list back.

But if perl doesn't care how many it receives, I guess I shouldn't either... so I can ignore this idea and the overhead it would induce.

Thanks for the replies, they included some interesting discussion points etc.

In reply to Re: Lots and lots of arguments! by zeltus
in thread Lots and lots of arguments! by zeltus

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