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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Meaning of '$#' in Unix Post 302502800 by fhernu on Wednesday 9th of March 2011 01:35:58 AM
Old 03-09-2011
This means the number of parameters (values) given to the script.
This small example will help you to understand :

Create the scritpt test.sh containing the following lines
echo "1st parameter : $1"
echo "2nd parameter : $2"
echo "3rd parameter : $3"
echo "Number of parameters: $#"
If you execute ./test.sh A B C

The output will be :
1st parameter : A
2nd parameter : B
3rd parameter : C
Number of parameters: 3
If now you execute ./test.sh A B

The output will be :
1st parameter : A
2nd parameter : B
3rd parameter :
Number of parameters: 2
Coming back to your script :

if test $# -eq 1 checks that one parameter is given to the script during its execution. Please notice this doesn't check the content of this parameter.
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NAME
XML::Parser::Style::Stream - Stream style for XML::Parser SYNOPSIS
use XML::Parser; my $p = XML::Parser->new(Style => 'Stream', Pkg => 'MySubs'); $p->parsefile('foo.xml'); { package MySubs; sub StartTag { my ($e, $name) = @_; # do something with start tags } sub EndTag { my ($e, $name) = @_; # do something with end tags } sub Characters { my ($e, $data) = @_; # do something with text nodes } } DESCRIPTION
This style uses the Pkg option to find subs in a given package to call for each event. If none of the subs that this style looks for is there, then the effect of parsing with this style is to print a canonical copy of the document without comments or declarations. All the subs receive as their 1st parameter the Expat instance for the document they're parsing. It looks for the following routines: o StartDocument Called at the start of the parse . o StartTag Called for every start tag with a second parameter of the element type. The $_ variable will contain a copy of the tag and the %_ variable will contain attribute values supplied for that element. o EndTag Called for every end tag with a second parameter of the element type. The $_ variable will contain a copy of the end tag. o Text Called just before start or end tags with accumulated non-markup text in the $_ variable. o PI Called for processing instructions. The $_ variable will contain a copy of the PI and the target and data are sent as 2nd and 3rd parameters respectively. o EndDocument Called at conclusion of the parse. perl v5.18.2 2011-05-24 Parser::Style::Stream(3)
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