Re: passing arguments: AppleScript to MacPerl

In article <[email protected]>,
 [email protected] (Louis Pouzin) wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Calling a macperl script (dog) from AS, with arguments a, b c, would read:
> 	tell perl to do script {dog, a, b, c}
> 
> Assuming that a, b, c are strings, they are copied to @ARGV in dog.
> 
> The problem I have is passing a list of arguments, e.g.
> 	set names to selection -- nb of selected objects not predictable
> 	tell perl to do script {dog, names} -- names conversion fails
> 
> Then I can converts names to a list of strings:
> 	set snames to {}
> 	repeat with nam in names
> 		set snames to snames & (nam as text)
> 	end repeat
> 	tell perl to do script {dog, snames} -- dog is called, @ARGV is empty
> 
> dog could be:
> 	$\ = "\n"; # print with EOL
> 	print "nb args: ", scalar @ARGV;
> 	$" = "\n"; # separator
> 	print "@ARGV";
> 
> Could anyone suggest a way around ?
> 
> Thanks

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