in reply to Re: Does Perl 5 (or 6?) need another built-in variable for the -F switch?
in thread Does Perl 5 (or 6?) need another built-in variable for the -F switch?

I like davido's suggestion of a %^C hash with the command line parameters that are used to invoke perl. This allows the programmer to use the value of F (or anything else defined on the commandline) for a join IF he/she knows that it is safe to do so - i.e. if it is not a pattern but a simple string, see duff's post in this thread.

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Re^3: Does Perl 5 (or 6?) need another built-in variable for the -F switch?
by Anonymous Monk on Nov 03, 2006 at 09:56 UTC
    On Linux with a mounted /proc file system, you can find the command line parameters from /proc/$$/cmdline.

    But this (and the proposed %^C) would be tricky. Command line parameters maybe clustered. Searching for just '-F' won't do, the parameter may be passed as '-wF:', which sets the split pattern to :. However, a parameter '-iF:' won't.

    And then there is PERL5OPT.

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      Well, at least perl should know which command line parameters where used when it was invoked :) and as the proposed hash %^C was supposed to be populated by perl itself, this should work out fine. This hash should then, IMO, include the command line parameters set via PERL5OPT.

      Mind you, I have no idea how difficult it would be to patch that into perl, I just said I liked the idea.

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        In that case, you rather want an array of pairs instead of a hash. There are switches that can be used multiple times (-M, among others), and some switches interact and their order is relevant (-l and -0 for instance).
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