I am playing around with Perl and wrote the script below that is executed from the command line, it will split data up in a file based on a value supplied. When executed you provide two arguments - the file that contains the data to be split and the character you want to split by. It works as intended, but the "split value" has to be surround by double quotes for it to work. It is a minor annoyance, but I would like to figure out how to have this work without having to use the double quotes. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you. Here is the script:
Code:
I execute it like so: ./law_split file_name "split value"
This is used on a UNIX box running IBM's AIX. Perl version 5.005_02 built for aix
This should read $ARGV[0] etc. instead. If you have the -w flag on, it will give you a warning. And I don't think you need a chomp() on command line arguments anyway.
Putting a pair of quotes around the value is required by the shell. You can probably workaround it by
$split_val = join(' ', @ARGV[1..(@ARGV-1)]);
to have Perl absorbs all command line parameters delimited by whitespace and glues them into a single string, but the reconstructed string may not be identical to the original string you intended to get. Who says that one space is always the delimiter? For instance by giving the following as command line arguments
Note the two spaces between a and b, which are treated as one whitespace delimiter by the shell and the code above transforms it to (thus the value of $split_val)
This arrangement is probably okay if the arguments are like a composite command, and whitespace is not significant. But literally, the string has been modified, and this is unlikely to be what you want.
Thank you both for your responses. I will take a look at your suggestions and make the appropriate changes. As you can tell I am just learning how to work with Perl so your help is appreciated. Merry Christmas!
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