Using ARGV in Perl

Freedolen · February 6th, 2007, 11:52 PM

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

ciderpunx · February 14th, 2007, 09:14 AM

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

Code:

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

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

HTH

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Freedolen · February 15th, 2007, 04:19 AM

Hi,

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

Freedolen

crmpicco · February 21st, 2007, 08:30 AM

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

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Freedolen · March 4th, 2007, 11:50 PM

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

crmpicco · March 5th, 2007, 10:00 AM

Code:

    C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe

for Windows...... :-)

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Freedolen · March 6th, 2007, 12:14 AM

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

crmpicco · March 14th, 2007, 06:07 AM

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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prettyrao · April 9th, 2007, 01:13 PM

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

Freedolen · May 8th, 2007, 11:07 PM

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