@ARGV not getting command line arguments

[bkimelman]

Perl on my Windows XP PC at the office is having a strange problem.

First, my version of Perl is 5.8.6 (downloaded from Activestate.com).

When I run a Perl script from the DOS command line the parameters I
specify are not placed into @ARGV !!! (This does not happen on my
Windows XP PC at home !)

Here is a sample test sc ript I wrote to demonstrate the problem:

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#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

my ( $count );

$count = scalar @ARGV;
print "ARGS [$count] ",join(", ",@ARGV),"\n";

exit 0;
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When I call the above script (named args.pl) as follows :

args.pl hello world

the output is : ARGS [0]

Where are my missing parameters ?

 

[Felix Geerinckx]

When I run a Perl script from the DOS command line the parameters I
specify are not placed into @ARGV !!!

When you type

ftype Perl

at the CMD prompt, do you get something like

Perl="C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe" "%1" %*

If not, type

help ftype