Greetings Brothers,

I am finishing up some class work and I wanted to check if I was on the right path or not...

I want to use Getopt::Long to load different data sets into the program I just finished writing. I need to be able to load the files paths in the following forms: 

./plc.pl < /myflies/lib/words
./plc.pl /myfiles/lib/words
cat /home/programs/perl/myfiles/lib/words | ./plc.pl

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My other option is to investigate using something like this:

#!/opt/bin/perl -w
#
#usage: ./plc.pl url
#
use strict;

my ($url) =@ARGV;
while(my $scalar = <>){
####
Main Program here
####
}

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So am I on the right track with either of these or are they both just a newbee barking up the wrong trees?

As always, thank you in advanced for your guidence and patience.


-mox

In reply to Using Getopt::Long it input different data sets by chinamox

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