Perl Question

[amerar]

Hi All,

I have an array that I form in Unix, KSH:

set -A fnames "daily_prices.fdp previous_prices.zprs eps_reports.ex3
Z_IND.DAT X_INDUSTRY.SEQ"

Then, I try and pass that to a Perl script: ./a.pl $fnames

I receive it in the Perl script: $x = $ARGV[0];

However, only the first element of the array is prevent......

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks!

 

[Ben Morrow]

I have an array that I form in Unix, KSH:

set -A fnames "daily_prices.fdp previous_prices.zprs eps_reports.ex3
Z_IND.DAT X_INDUSTRY.SEQ"

Then, I try and pass that to a Perl script: ./a.pl $fnames

I receive it in the Perl script: $x = $ARGV[0];

However, only the first element of the array is prevent......

Presumably (I don't know ksh) since you didn't quote $fnames, it got
passed as several arguments instead of one, so the rest are in
@ARGV[1..N].

Ben

 

[Martijn Lievaart]

Hi All,

I have an array that I form in Unix, KSH:

set -A fnames "daily_prices.fdp previous_prices.zprs eps_reports.ex3
Z_IND.DAT X_INDUSTRY.SEQ"

Then, I try and pass that to a Perl script: ./a.pl $fnames

I receive it in the Perl script: $x = $ARGV[0];

However, only the first element of the array is prevent......

What am I doing wrong?

Not a Perl question at all. Read up on argument quoting and try

../a.pl "$fnames"

HTH,
M4