Re: parsing command line args

Ben Morrow <benmorrow@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Quoth "badarisj@xxxxxxxxx" <badarisj@xxxxxxxxx>:
folks,

when i give a command-line of:
/tmp/test.pl -arg1 -arg2 -arg3 'value with spaces'
to unix-shell, my perl script has access to the command-line arguments
in the following neat array:

0 ARRAY(0x12b06c)

I'm not quite sure what you intended to mean by this line: for a start,
@ARGV certainly doesn't have two 'element 0's.


That's what caused me to not attempt an answer when I saw it.


The Text::ParseWords module will do this for you. I was fairly sure this
was in the FAQ, but a couple of reasonable searches didn't find it,


perldoc -q split

How can I split a [character] delimited string except when inside [character]?


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