Hello, I'm relatively new to perl but not programming, and I'm learning this wonderful language now :) but I'm trying to do something, and I'm a little stuck. I have the O'Reilly's stuff but maybe I'm just not searching it right.

Anyways, here's the question.

In C/C++ there's the ARGC and ARGV variables, which I understand that @ARGV is like ARGV in C. However, ARGV[0] is the first argument given in Perl, whereas it's the executable name in C. Is there a way to get the name of the perl script I'm running, so I can generate some sort of message instructing the user on usage? For example... 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use strict;
if (@ARGV != 2) {
    print "Usage: (program name) arg1 arg2\n";
    exit;
}

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I tried ARGV[0] by instinct from C and, of course, got the first argument I called the function with - blew my mind till I did for (@ARGV) {print "$_\n}; and saw that it didn't have the script name.

Any help? Thanks.

Brian, relatively new perlmonk

In reply to Anything comparable to argv0 from C in Perl? by brianarn

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