APM: Command line arguments

[Jeremy Brooks]

All command line args are stored in @ARGV in the order you supply them.
Thus, bar.txt is the first element of @ARGV,  $ARGV[0].

fyi: Getopts is a parser of @ARGV

On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 08:51, David Bluestein II wrote:
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> I know about Getopts to get command line options, but it has escaped me how
> to get a command line argument. What I want is to:
> 
> ./foo.pl bar.txt
> 
> And have foo.pl get the name bar.txt as a variable (in this case the
> filename to act upon). Where is bar.txt stored?
> 
> David
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