in reply to Re^2: How to write a program to read stdin or command line?
in thread How to write a program to read stdin or command line?

In that case I would just shift off any required arguments from @ARGV, then process the file list with <> (or manually with open, etc., if I were paranoid about using <>).

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Re^4: How to write a program to read stdin or command line?
by jdporter (Paladin) on Oct 02, 2007 at 17:52 UTC
    ...just shift off any required arguments from @ARGV...

    Exactly. Or, if it makes sense, use something a little more sophisticated, such as Getopt::Long, to extract them from the @ARGV array.

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