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I think you don't really understand what -p does.

I recommend that you read about it in "perldoc perlrun".

In your example you seem to expect that "ConfigFile" is treated as the name of the file that -p workes on and all the other command-line arguments go to @ARGV.

This is wrong.

What happens is that ALL arguments (including "ConfigFile") go to @ARGV but then are treated (via -p's magic) as filenames. This is why you get the error.

So you have to pass your data to perl via some other mechanism if you want to use -p (I would use an environment variable).

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Re^4: Command-line arguments to command-line Perl
by RecursionBane (Beadle) on Oct 04, 2010 at 04:58 UTC
    Yes, you're right. I didn't quite understand what -p did. Thanks for your suggestion regarding perldoc! I have a better understanding of how -p and -i work. Also, -s seems interesting.
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