Break up command line

fxia has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, My question is probably an old one. Unfortunately I was not able to find any answers. Basically, how can I break up the command line into an array of arguments? For example:

cmd123 a 'b c' 'd e f'

should have three arguments (a, 'b c', 'd e f'). What would be a good way of doing it? Thanks a lot!!!

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Re: Break up command line by dl748 (Initiate) on Jun 02, 2001 at 02:35 UTC
I thought when you execute the script it automatically puts it in @_. So when you first start the script you can `$firstele = shift; $secondele = shift; $thirdele = shift;` [download] or you can do it this was `my ($first, $second, $third) = @_;` [download] so if you run a command like this myscript.pl "this is a test" what is it `$first = "this is a test" $second = "what" $third = "is"` [download] does this help?	[reply] [d/l] [select]
(jeffa) 2Re: Break up command line by jeffa (Bishop) on Jun 02, 2001 at 02:39 UTC
Almost, you want `@ARGV`, not `@_` Jeff R-R-R--R-R-R--R-R-R--R-R-R--R-R-R-- L-L--L-L--L-L--L-L--L-L--L-L--L-L--	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: (jeffa) 2Re: Break up command line by dl748 (Initiate) on Jun 02, 2001 at 03:28 UTC
interesting. @_ works on sco, and (caldera, red hat) linux.	[reply]
Re: Re: (jeffa) 2Re: Break up command line by Anonymous Monk on Jun 02, 2001 at 03:37 UTC
Re: Break up command line by Desdinova (Friar) on Jun 02, 2001 at 12:40 UTC
The getopt feature may help with this see this perlman:Getopt::Std or this perlman:Getopt::Long	[reply]
Discard - Re: Break up command line by fxia (Novice) on Jun 02, 2001 at 02:26 UTC
Sorry for my lazyness. Just flipped through the cookbook. THe answer is there with Text::ParseWords.	[reply]