scripting languages...

[Gary Kline]

On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 03:35:03AM +0200, Arne Skjaerholt wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 14:48 -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > 	I like the C  "main(int argc, char *argv[])" intro or
> > 	starting-point.  main() has to be there in C. Given argc
> > 	and argv, I can hack away freely.  /bin/sh, /bin/csh, 
> > 	and perl's lack if arg[cv] means that I have to think about 
> > 	how-to grab the arguments to a binary. Script ot ./a.out.
> Getting at argv/argc is actually pretty simple in Perl. The global array
> @ARGV contains the arguments given on the command-line, but not the name
> of the file (this datum is contained in $0). Therefore your argv[1] in C
> is $ARGV[0] in Perl. The number of command-line arguments can be
> obtained in two ways, either you interpret the array in a scalar context
> and get its length: ``my $argc = scalar @ARGV'' or you use the last
> index of the array and add one: ``my $argc = $#ARGV + 1''. Of course, in
> most cases you'll just want to loop over the command-line args, so a
> foreach loop should suffice, or of course one of the Getopt (Getopt::Std
> or Getopt::Long in most cases) modules.
> 

	So, could I say:

	my $argc = $#ARGV+1; $count = 0;
	while ($argc--)
	{
		if (! (checkErr($ARGV[$count], $count)))
		{
			printf("Processing %s\n", $ARGV[$count]);
			doWhatever($ARGV[$count]);
		}
		$count++;
	}

	or something close-to!?  If Larry Wall had only made perl
	a bit closer to C, I probably would've used it more.

	anyway, thanks!

	gary


> Your neighbourhood Perl afficionado,
> Arne
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> 
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