@ARGV is an array, so you need to read the data as an array. One way is:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

#
# input from command line
#
my ( $foo, $bar ) = @ARGV;
print "foo = $foo\n";
print "bar = $bar\n";

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You could also use $ARGV[0], 1, etc, and use $#ARGV to know how many arguments you have. Another way is just to use shift: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

#
# input from command line
#
my $foo = shift;
my $bar = shift;
print "foo = $foo\n";
print "bar = $bar\n";

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Now, if you're serious about command line input, I'd suggest looking at Getopt::Long. and perhaps Pod::Usage. A piece of the beginning of one of my work scripts might look like:


#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# embed perdoc somewhere (top or bottom) for script documentation.
#
use warnings;
use strict;
use Getopt::Long;
use Pod::Usage;

my $help = 0;
my $man  = 0;

GetOptions('help|?' => \$help, man => \$man ) or pod2usage(2);

pod2usage(-exitval => 0, -verbose => 1) if $help;
pod2usage(-exitval => 0, -verbose => 2) if $man;

my $file = shift;
pod2usage(-exitfile => 1, -verbose => 1) unless ( defined( $file ));
die("File $file is not a regular file.\n") unless ( -f $file );

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Update: cleanup and typo fixes

In reply to Re: ARGV Usage by dwm042
in thread ARGV Usage by pp

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