How do you use command line parameters?

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Re: How do you use command line parameters?⭐ by japhy (Canon) on Sep 20, 2000 at 18:47 UTC
Command-line parameters are sent to a Perl program in the same way they're sent to any other. `% ./myprog foo bar blat` [download] The @ARGV array holds the command-line arguments, and in this case, it would hold ('foo', 'bar', 'blat'). Perl allows for simplistic command-line options via the -s option to perl: `#!/usr/bin/perl -s print "value of -x: $x\n"; print "value of -name: $name\n";` [download] Here's a sample run: `% ./myprog -x -name=Jeff value of -x: 1 value of -name: Jeff` [download] If you want more complex option parsing, there are two standard modules that can do this for you: Getopt::Std and Getopt::Long. Perl allows you to treat the arguments in @ARGV as filenames, by using the special case of the <> operator. `while (<>) { # $ARGV is the filename # $_ is the line # $. is the line number # reset it to 0 by doing # $. = 0 if eof; # or # close ARGV if eof; }` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
RE: Answer: How do you use command line parameters? by japhy (Canon) on Sep 20, 2000 at 18:52 UTC
That is, you can use the arguments in @ARGV as filenames to read from. Should've made that clear. `$_="goto+F.print+chop;\n=yhpaj";F1:eval`	[reply]
Re: How do you use command line parameters? by BlackShift (Initiate) on Sep 20, 2000 at 18:48 UTC
`#!/usr/bin/perl foreach (@ARGV) { print $_; };` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: How do you use command line parameters? by DigitalKitty (Parson) on Aug 05, 2002 at 23:39 UTC
Hi. The easiest way is to use the Getopt::Std module ( it is part of the standard distribution ). Here is a sample program. `#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use Getopt::Std; use vars qw( $opt_s $opt_r $opt_n ); if( ! getopts('srn' ) ) { die "Usage: filename.pl -srn filename\n"; #Example: perl myfile.pl -r test.txt } my @file = <>; if( $opt_s ) { @file = sort { $a cmp $b } @file; } if( $opt_r ) { @file = reverse @file; } if( $opt_n ) { @file = sort { $a <=> $b } @file; }` [download] Each command-line switch is assigned to its respective scalar variable ( $opt_s, etc. ) and if it exists, its individual value is 1. You can also use multiple switches: `$perl myfile.pl -rn test.txt # Reverse the contents of test.txt and perform # a numeric sort on it.` [download] `# Sample runs: C:\perl>perl pg8.pl -r test.txt third line. second line. first line. C:\perl> C:\perl>perl pg8.pl -n test.txt 2 33 33 44 48 55 889 990 C:\perl> C:\perl>perl pg8.pl -c test.txt Unknown option: c Usage: filename.pl -srn filename C:\perl>` [download] In the last example, I hadn't declared an $opt_c in the line 'use vars qw ( $opt_s ... );' or an if() statement to handle it. This is why I received the message. Hope this helps, -Katie.	[reply] [d/l] [select]


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