Greetings, Monks!

Long have I assimilated knowledge from you, unseen. I emerge from the shadows of Lurkwood to place this query before you:

How do I provide command-line arguments to a command-line Perl call (from a tcsh script, no less)?

The purpose of this operation is to replace this line in ConfigFile:

'def' => '',

With this:

'def' => 'dumper/$tcsh_input',

(Where $tcsh_input is actually a command-line argument to the tcsh script)

Here is what I am attempting now in my tcsh script:

perl -pi -e '$design = $ARGV[0] ; s/.*'def'.*''/\t"def" => "dumper\/$design.def",/g' ConfigFile $tcsh_input

Any arguments after the -e switch, however, seem to be treated as input files, so I see this:

 >> perl -pi -e '$design = $ARGV[0] ; s/.*'def'.*''/\t"def" => "dumper
+\/$design.def",/g' ConfigFile ADCIF
Can't open ADCIF: No such file or directory, <> line 194.

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Is there a separate switch I can use before -e to represent the arguments (accessible through @ARGV) to the program?

Kindly bless me with your wisdom, so that I may express my gratitude and scurry back into the shadows from whence I came; all this light is hurting my eyes.

~Recursion

In reply to Command-line arguments to command-line Perl by RecursionBane

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