Re^2: How to escape white space in command line arguments

Hi,

Yes, you're right. For some reason, it wasn't working before so I chose to escape those white spaces which turned out to be totally unnecessary later.

I really appreciate your response.

Thanks,

Off the topic, could someone please tell me if I need to close the thread in this forum? I read the FAQs and I couldn't find any related posts there. I just want to make sure that I follow the forum rules. Thanks!

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Re^3: How to escape white space in command line arguments by repellent (Priest) on Apr 13, 2010 at 15:34 UTC
Off the topic, could someone please tell me if I need to close the thread in this forum? There is no need to. This is a good thread that will, in the future, help people who come by it.	[reply]
Re^4: How to escape white space in command line arguments by Anonymous Monk on Apr 13, 2010 at 15:39 UTC
There is no closing of threads, ever :)	[reply]
Re^3: How to escape white space in command line arguments by Marshall (Canon) on Apr 13, 2010 at 20:48 UTC
GoForIt, I'm glad that you got some help from this thread and are able to proceed with your program! Hurray! This @ARGV business just means that this is a reserved array for Perl and normally you shouldn't assign to it or grow it by a push or whatever. I've never seen a 'C' or Perl program that did that, but of course "never" is a very long time! Perl normally "consumes" items from @ARGV via shift. The equivalent analog in 'C' is argv++. Getopts essentially works this way. Both of these operations make @ARGV smaller. There are also analogous operations that can consume the "rightmost" argument from the command line. JavaFan and I are probably in what I would call "aggressive agreement" - there isn't any real difference except that somehow the words via text seem to be in juxtaposition.	[reply]
Re^4: How to escape white space in command line arguments by GoForIt (Novice) on Apr 14, 2010 at 06:24 UTC
Hooray! I found the coolest forum possible :) Thanks,	[reply]