SPUG: running script with the variables on the same line

[Tim Maher]

On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 08:31:00PM -0700, John W. Krahn wrote:
> Tim Maher wrote:
> > On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 07:31:04PM -0700, Jay Scherrer wrote:
> > 
> >>I was thinking of $argv, but is that only used for files?
> >>Jay Scherrer
> > 
> > Yes; That variable provides the name of the currently open file
> > when you use -n/-p to get an "implicit input-reading loop".
> 
> Perl is case sensitive so the variable you are looking for is $ARGV.
> perldoc perlvar

Quite right; and it's interesting how my perceptual systems did
automatic error-correction on that! 8-}
 
-Tim
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