in reply to Break up command line

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;

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or you can do it this was 
my ($first, $second, $third) = @_;

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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"

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does this help?

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(jeffa) 2Re: Break up command line
by jeffa (Bishop) on Jun 02, 2001 at 02:39 UTC
    Almost, you want @ARGV, not @_

    Jeff 

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      interesting. @_ works on sco, and (caldera, red hat) linux.
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        Actually... shift works on @ARGV outside of subroutines, and on @_ inside subroutines. Looks exactly the same though.
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