Ok so I have come to a position where I want to rip out some C code an replace it with Perl. Problem is that the C program is passed a C structure as a command line argument. As such I parse it with offsets and treat it as a binary object.

With Bash this is easy because you have access to the command line arguments in a single location($*). C isn't much more difficult. With Perl I can't seem to find a structure that is functionally equivalent. I can't join @ARGV because the os throws away repeated white space. I don't have control of the calling program to change it to quote the input either.

I could pull it from /proc or ps easy enough but that wouldn't be portable.

What esoteric part of perl have I overlooked?

In reply to Perl equivelant to bash '$*' by tillywern

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