my $q=$ARGV[0];
my $offset=$ARGV[1];
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Good heavens no! Good thing you didn't try that code to see what it would do! I mean if you'd actually tried running the code to see what might happen you could have ripped a hole in the space-time continuum sending the entire Lesser Magellanic Cloud off into the 11th dimension.

Or maybe you'd have just gotten an error. Or it might have worked the way the documentation you should have read would indicate. Who knows.

Well, not you of course since you didn't try it.

yep, thats one way!
But this will probably work too

my ($q, $offset) = @ARGV ;
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But be careful testing your code using my previous example as already mentioned by Fletch :)