To help those that follow me ... dallok: read the site FAQ, especially the bits regarding posting. You need to enclose your code in <code> and </code> tags for it to be readable.

Separating your lines *AS WRITTEN* (and this is at best a guess, since you don't have semicolons there), this is what your code looks like. 

open me, '>f:\scripts\text\nodeup.txt';
print me "$ARGV1 $ARGV2 is UP on $ARGV0.\n";
close me 
$ROUTE="myfile" 
open route, $ROUTE or die " can't $route\n"; 
# here, I can't even guess with any confidence
@lines= my $TEST = $ARGV if (grep {$test eq $ARGV} @lines) { do comman
+d here} close ROUTE;
 exit 0;

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First use strict and run under -w (put -w on the #! line). It will make your life so much easier.

Second, while *I* have an idea because I was reading the chatterbox, others don't. Your question there was "how do I make $ARGV[0] and friends more permanent?" The answer to that question is simple, but as usual TMTOWTDI 

my ($first_arg, $second_arg, $third_arg) = @ARGV[0..2];

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Originally posted as a Categorized Answer.

In reply to Re: ON the ARGV again by arturo
in thread On the ARGV again by dallok

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