Re^2: Passing arguments

I am sorry not to have provided more detail. I inserted the following at the very beginning of my code which showed me that I am not getting any arguments:

my $cnt = @ARGV; print "Count=$cnt\n"; print "@ARGV\n"; exit;

and I got the following when I run it:

H:\>History-Reader.pl arg1 arg2 arg3
Count=0

I also get the following when issuing suggested commands:

H:\>assoc .pl
.pl=Perl
H:\>ftype Perl
Perl="C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe" "%1" %*

I TOTALLY DO NOT LIKE WINDOWS, but I have no choice for this program.

Does anyone have any other suggestions?

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Re^3: Passing arguments by jsPerl (Novice) on Nov 05, 2010 at 15:43 UTC
Interesting - If I run the script with "Perl" in front of the filename it works, but not if I run it via its association: H:\>Perl History-Reader.pl arg1 arg2 arg3 Count=3 arg1 arg2 arg3 H:\>History-Reader.pl arg1 arg2 arg3 Count=0 How can I get it to work without having to prefix "Perl"?	[reply]
Re^4: Passing arguments by kcott (Archbishop) on Nov 05, 2010 at 16:15 UTC
A similar scenario came up a few days ago: Piped input read by Windows Vista but not by Windows XP. There's a few links there to further information. The one at the bottom of the thread provided by tye leads to a discussion about setting `PATHEXT` (amongst other things): Re: Out of date over <> and 5.10 (redir). I'd suggest you look at this one first. -- Ken	[reply] [d/l]