11-05-2007
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Originally Posted by
porter
The four primary ways of inputting some to a program (no matter the language the program is written in)
(a) command line argument, like your file argument
(b) environment variables, typically need to export from a shell script
(c) as stdin, basically the input stream to a program
(d) as a generic file, where the program looks for well-known files.
I have tried
export $MY_VARIABLE
and then reading $MY_VARIABLE in perl program. I didnt get any value!
I tried as command line argument, however since I already have one file as input paramenter, it is interpreting another also as file input and I get a message that $MY_VARIABLE file does not exists.
Can you please show me syntax of passing file as one parameter and value as another parameter? or any other way?
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