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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Accepting user input and arguments in PERL Post 302484230 by jisha on Thursday 30th of December 2010 08:23:06 AM
Old 12-30-2010
CPU & Memory Accepting user input and arguments in PERL
Hi All,

Can we pass arguments while calling the perl script and as well as ask user input during execution of the script?

My program is as below:
I am passing arg1 and arg2 as argements to test.pl
]./test.pl arg1 arg2

Inside the test.pl I have :
Code:
print "Do you want a name ? (y/n) : ";
my $YN = <>;
chomp $YN;
print "YN = $YN \n";

On execution it by passing arguments gives me some junk values in $YN where as with out arguments it waits to ask the input.

Any solutions?

Thanks in advance
JS
Last edited by vbe; 12-30-2010 at 10:04 AM.. Reason: code tags please
 

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