in reply to need help urgent using @ARGV

use strict; use Getopt::Long; my $database = ''; my $servername = ''; my $result = GetOptions ("database=s" => \$database, # string + "servername=s" => \$servername); # stri +ng print qq|USAGE: perl backup.pl --database=<database> --servername=<ser +vername>\\ n| unless ($database && $servername); my $stmnt =qq|BACKUP database "$database" TO DISK = N'c:\\bak\\master. +dmp'\n|; print $stmnt;

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