Using ARGV in Perl

ghara · September 13th, 2007, 02:21 AM

Hi!
ive used this code...
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use warnings;

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

and the output is....
First Argument: C:\First Folder\test
********************
Second Argument: C:Second Folder

mariahayek · September 15th, 2007, 11:16 AM

Quote:

quote:Originally posted by ghara
Hi!
ive used this code...
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use warnings;

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

and the output is....
First Argument: C:\First Folder\test
********************
Second Argument: C:Second Folder

it works.thank you very much..

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bala2910 · February 16th, 2010, 05:20 AM

Hii,
I copied and pasted the code of yours and executed in my env. its working perfectly well. wat i have notices is that, i was in bash. in your terminal type "csh" which will set up the c shell env. its works perfectly well in this env.

[bala@DEV13 ~/Desktop]$ cat example.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

print "First Argument: $ARGV[0]";
print "\n********************\n";
print "Second Argument: $ARGV[1] \n";
[bala@DEV13 ~/Desktop]$ perl example.pl "D:\First Folder\test\" "D:\Second\ Folder"
First Argument: D:\First Folder\test\
********************
Second Argument: D:\Second\ Folder
[bala@DEV13 ~/Desktop]$

regards
Bala

anuragamodi · May 27th, 2010, 12:46 AM

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

Try & execute this with quotes(") & slash(\) seperated with a space to get the desired output.

Use as below:-

perl test.pl "D:\First Folder\test\ " "D:\Second Folder"

anishkumar_k · May 28th, 2010, 12:25 AM

Try giving the arguments inside single quotes.

tempxyz · January 6th, 2012, 09:31 AM

Hi

execute the script from command line as follows

perl test.pl "D:\First Folder\test\\" "D:\Second Folder"

i hope,this will work..

pavanucs · April 19th, 2012, 08:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Freedolen

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

hi....
just place \n after $ARGV[0].
THATS IT..
HAVE FUN

indana_vamsi · September 14th, 2012, 10:44 AM

hi,
you have used "\" which is an escape character. try to use \\ instead

ciderpunx · October 18th, 2012, 06:36 PM

The following is redundant:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
...
use warnings;

-w /means/ use warnings.

The previous poster means that when you use a \ character befor another it escapes that character. perl will read:

"D:\First Folder\test\" "D:\Second Folder"

As
"D:First Foldertest" "

So, place a \ before your \s and all will be well.
"D:\\First Folder\\test\\" "D:\\Second Folder"

Cheers