Question about activestate perl
[email protected] ("Anne L. Highsmith")
| Newsgroups | perl.perl4lib |
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This is REALLY embarrassing. After a loooooooooong hiatus, I need to go back to using activestate perl on my pc to do some work. I don't know whether it's me or my PC or the phase of the moon, but I can't get my program to recognize command line arguments. I backed off to the simplest program, i.e. --------------------------------------------------------------- #!/usr/local/ActivePerl-5.8/bin/perl -w my $test = shift; print "$test\n"; ---------------------------------------------------------------- and I invoke it from the dos window command line as: C:\Perl\apps\urls>test.pl Hello and I get: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at C:\Perl\apps\urls\test.pl line 4. What the HECK am I doing wrong? I've tried enclosing the command line arguments in single quotes, double quotes and rubber galoshes, but I get the same response. I tried changing "my $test = shift;" to "my $test = $ARGV[0];". I copied the program back to my unix box, with just a change of the shebang line, and it works fine. When I hardcode the 'Hello' it works fine. I figure this has to be excruciatingly simple, but I can't see it. Help? Anne L. Highsmith Consortia Systems Coordinator 5000 TAMU Evans Library Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-5000 [email protected] 979-862-4234 979-845-6238 (fax)