×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR COMPUTER PROFESSIONALS

Contact US

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you a
Computer / IT professional?
Join Tek-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!

*Tek-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Passing command line parameters

Passing command line parameters

Passing command line parameters

(OP)
I am very new to programming, so please forgive this rudimentary question...I am writing a utility that I would like to be able to pass a command line parameter at startup. I am using the ActivePERL port for WIN32. I am envisioning something such as the following for the CLI:

>perl ./myutil.pl parameter

and in my app I want to be able to assign a variable to the parameter. Such as:

$cliparm = parameter

I have tried using <STDIN>, but it is waits for user input & thus doesn't accomplish what I want to. I want this to be seamless to the user.

Any suggestions will be most appreciated!

Thanks,
Stuart

RE: Passing command line parameters

@ARGV holds all your parameters, but if you want to use only one, this works..


$parameter = shift;

adam@aauser.com

RE: Passing command line parameters

(OP)
Your solution worked great!! Thank you for your help.

-Stuart

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Tek-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Tek-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Tek-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Tek-Tips and talk with other members! Already a Member? Login

Close Box

Join Tek-Tips® Today!

Join your peers on the Internet's largest technical computer professional community.
It's easy to join and it's free.

Here's Why Members Love Tek-Tips Forums:

Register now while it's still free!

Already a member? Close this window and log in.

Join Us             Close