Dear fellow monks,
I am trying to pull in 4 arguments from the command line, put them into variables and then use them as part of a system() call. Here is some of my code:

   $rpt_name = $ARGV[0];
   $desname = $ARGV[1];
   $btch = $ARGV[2];
   $record = $ARGV[3];

   @args = qw(/where/the/program/is/rwcli60 report=$rpt_name userid=us
+er_id@db server=my_server destype=printer desname=$desname btch=$btch
+ record=$record subbtch=0);

   $retval = system("@args");
   die "system failed: $?" unless $retval == 0;

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I have made the connection in the past, so it is not a path problem or anything. My personal opinion is that it has to do with the way I am putting the variables into the @args array. Do I need single quotes around the variables??????? Any help would be appreciated.

Prince99

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In reply to help with arrays by Prince99

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