Hi Monks!

Using activestate perl on Win2000, I was able to pass command line parameters to my program without prefacing the perl script with the word perl.

e.g. foo.pl 2 3

Now on XP (and a more recent, i.e. the latest version of activestate perl), the command line parameters aren't passed unless I preface the word perl in front...

e.g. perl c:\myprograms\foo.pl 2 3

I'm not sure if this has to do with winXP or the activestate perl version.

Is there a setting I can change to enable command line processing without having to include the word perl before the script name?

In reply to Problems passing command line parameters to activestate perl on XP by redss

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