Subj : Spliiting a command line
To   : Jame Clay
From : Sean Rima
Date : Tue Aug 19 2003 12:59 pm

-=> Jame Clay wrote to Sean Rima <=-

 JC> Hi Sean!
 JC> 
>>>> I want $a to be tcob1tes and $b to be this is a test
 JC> 
>>> I'd read $ARGV[0] into $a, then set up a loop to read the rest of the
>>> $ARGV array, concatenate the bits with spaces, and shove it in $b...
 JC> 
>> I did that in the end, works a treat.
 JC> 
 JC>    And, of course, if you want more control over the command line
 JC> parameters to a  you could use getopts (Stn or Long)...
 JC> 

That was my first port opf call but I cannot use " from the script that I was 
using as it requires the " for the start and end of the commandline to call.

Sean

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