Re: [MacPerl] use of @ARGV in Unix/Mac

[Christian Huldt <chr@solvare.se>]

Chris Nandor skrev/wrote:
>At 20.53 1998.04.25, Xah Lee wrote:
>>Suppose I have a script "generateReport.pl" that takes in a date as
>>argument and prints to STDOUT. e.g.
>>
>>[unix prompt]$ generateReport.pl 19980304
>>
>>Is it possbile to run this script on a mac without modifying it?
>>
>>Basically I'm writing scripts for unix, but need to code or test them on
>>my mac.
>>
>>Thanks in advance.
>
>Vicki came up with a good way that we worked out that does something like
>this:
>
>
>@ARGV = MacPerl::Ask('ARGV?') if ($^O eq 'MacOS' && $MacPerl::Version !~
>/MPW/);

Alpha has a preference for asking for command line input (very nice!) or
not, so you might want to put that into an
unless (@ARGV) {...}

Christian
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