You can't directly type, "myscript $i=200 on the command line and expect it to do what you want. However, it is fairly straightforward to define a default value that can be overridden by some other means.

For example: 

my $i = 2;
if( exists( $ARGV[0] ) ) { $i = $ARGV[0] };

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But if you have anything beyond the most basic of needs in this respect, I suggest you have a look at Getopt::Long, or Getopt::Std. It's best to let one of those modules handle your command-line parsing for you.


Dave

In reply to Re: Changing parameters by davido
in thread Changing parameters by sparkel

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