You are calling your Perl script like this:

system('my_perl_script.pl', 'arg1', 'arg2');

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This does not pass the commands to Perl or the Perl script. You need to invoke the Perl interpreter with your script as the parameter:

my @cmd = $^X, '-w', 'my_perl_script.pl', 'arg1', 'arg2';
system( @cmd ) == 0
  or die "Couldn't launch @cmd: $! / $?";

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If you are starting your Perl script from the command line, you also cannot start it like this:

C:\>my_perl_script.pl arg1 arg2

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but you need to start it like this:

perl -w my_perl_script.pl arg1 arg2

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Of course, this is guesswork based on your description. Usually it helps when you post a minimal script that exhibits the problematic behaviour, and the test cases.

In reply to Re: ARGV Problem by Corion
in thread ARGV Problem by tjdmlhw

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