Using ARGV in Perl
 

Hi All,

 I am new to this Forum.

Below is my perl script:

use strict;
use warnings;

print "First Argument: $ARGV[0]";
print "\n********************\n";
print "Second Argument: $ARGV[1]";

and i save the code in a file test.pl

When I execute this with arguments
perl test.pl "D:\First Folder\test\" "D:\Second Folder"

The Output shown was:
First Argument: D:\First Folder\test" D:\Second
********************
Second Argument: Folder

The Output what I expect is:
First Argument: D:\First Folder\test
********************
Second Argument: D:\Second Folder

Is there any idea to get the output what i expect, without changing Backward slashes to Forward slashes or Deleting the Final slash in First argument

Thanks in Advance
Freedolen

Use single quotes round your commandline arguments. Or change your code to:

(don't have access to a windows machine, so this hasn't been tested)

HTH

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Hi,

   Thanks for your work. But it doesn't works on Windows. Any other idea?

Freedolen

what is your "shebang" line at the top of the script?

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Hi,

   Generally i won't use shebang line in my script. According to my knowledge the shebang line for windows "#!perl". Is this cause any problem on windows perl?

Freedolen

for Windows...... :-)

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Hi,
    The inclusion of shebang line also doesn't helps me. Iam getting the same result
First Argument: D:\First Folder\test" D:\Second
********************
Second Argument: Folder

Regards,
Freedolen

you must have a line at the top of your script, either #! C:\Perl\bin\Perl.exe for Windows or #! /usr/bin/perl for Unix (what i use).

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Hi,

You can try putting a \ after Second to represent the space. Try creating such a directory in windows and do a list to see how it prints the directory and use that format. Sorry I am not a windows user but I can think of this... Let me know if this works. If not I can def try helping u out...

HTH

Hi,

   Thanks for your reply, but sorry the solution doesn't works and i have also created directories named "First Folder" and "Second Folder" and listed using "dir" command and they lists properly as what i have created.

Now i execute as
perl test.pl "D:\First Folder\test\" "D:\Second\ Folder"

The Output shown was:
First Argument: D:\First Folder\test" D:\Second\
********************
Second Argument: Folder

The Output what I expect is:
First Argument: D:\First Folder\test
********************
Second Argument: D:\Second\ Folder


Freedolen