Re: How do I read data passed to perl script

For the particular example you posted

my $arg = shift @ARGV;
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is one way to do it. There are a few billion others.

But, as you say, this is a very basic question, which makes me wonder, why are you trying to do this without learning the basics of Perl first? There are sources aplenty to do this. Trying to solve a programming problem by asking piecemeal questions like this one, without knowing the basics first, seems to me a crazy way to go about it. Are you under the gun to conjure up with some Perl code out of thin air?

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Re^2: How do I read data passed to perl script by husker (Chaplain) on Jun 07, 2005 at 14:04 UTC
why are you trying to do this without learning the basics of Perl first? How can he learn Perl without slinging some code? I've found, for myself, that I just cannot grab a book or whatever and "absorb" a language from scratch. I have to have some concrete problem to solve, and I learn the language as I go about solving it. Now, that means of course that if I don't need CGI in my solution that I'm not going to learn CGI, but that's what works best for me. After I have a fairly strong foundation in the language, then I can start branching out to learn things I'm not actually needing to use right away.	[reply]

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Re^2: How do I read data passed to perl script
by husker (Chaplain) on Jun 07, 2005 at 14:04 UTC

why are you trying to do this without learning the basics of Perl first?

How can he learn Perl without slinging some code? I've found, for myself, that I just cannot grab a book or whatever and "absorb" a language from scratch. I have to have some concrete problem to solve, and I learn the language as I go about solving it. Now, that means of course that if I don't need CGI in my solution that I'm not going to learn CGI, but that's what works best for me. After I have a fairly strong foundation in the language, then I can start branching out to learn things I'm not actually needing to use right away.

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