It is hard to imagine how one can get this wrong, but the following is giving me grief on one machine (and only that one out of the several that I use).

print "$ARGV[0]\n\t$ARGV[1]\n\t\t$ARGV[2]\n";

This is obvious and well documented, and something I have used for years without problems. However, on a new server (hosted in the cloud, if that matters), it is failing in a manneer that is a show-stopper. The buld of Activestate Perl is:

This is perl 5, version 14, subversion 1 (v5.14.1) built for MSWin32-x64-multi-thread

The problem is that with this particular machine, perl scripts invoked as:

system("2_CleanXMLfiles.pl \"$now_string\"");
system("3a_MakeTDVfilesA.pl \"$now_string\" $start_date $end_date 1>Ma
+keTDVfilesA.pl.stdout 2>MakeTDVfilesA.pl.stderr");

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loses the arguments. The above lines of code are the last in a driver script, and intermittently, the above lines of code behave as if the following had been executed instead:

system("2_CleanXMLfiles.pl");
system("3a_MakeTDVfilesA.pl");

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It doesn't matter whether I am executing these programs using back ticks or using system, the behaviour is the same, but on this new machine, it happens about 80% of the time, and never on the other machines I use. That, especially, has me baffled.

Has anyne else seen this? If so, what is the fix? If not, does anyone have any ideas on how best to fix this?

Thanks

I appreciate any help I can get

Ted

In reply to Has anyone seen perl losing arguments? by ted.byers

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