Reading in parameters

basicdez has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Okay I am now passing my needed parameters with a system call, but how do I pick them up on the other end. With what I have here, I am getting nothing passed into test.pl!

Here is the line I am trying, but it is not working...

my ( $arg1 , $arg2, $arg3 ) = @_; #To read parameters

system ("test.pl $number $name $type"); #To send them
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Please help me if you can? </code>

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Re: Reading in parameters by derby (Abbot) on Mar 13, 2002 at 12:55 UTC
basicdez, That was answered in the original thread. `my( $arg1, $arg2, $arg3 ) = @ARGV` [download] You don't really need to assign to argX, perl automatically places the command line args in the @ARGV array for you. -derby	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Reading in parameters by ChOas (Curate) on Mar 13, 2002 at 12:58 UTC
Hi! In test.pl use the following: `my ( $arg1 , $arg2, $arg3 )=@ARGV;` [download] And they should magically appear, and be usable, in test.pl And might I advice you to use: `system (test.pl,$number,$name,$type);` [download] If you`re not gonna use the shell, just do it for safety`s sake... Hope this helps! GreetZ!, ChOas print "profeth still\n" if /bird\|devil/;	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Reading in parameters by PrimeLord (Pilgrim) on Mar 13, 2002 at 14:57 UTC
In the spirit of TIMTOWTDI you could always look at Getopt::Std. It would give you a little more flexibilty with your arguments.	[reply]


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