On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 3:46 PM, mitr <mitr.bala@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a perl script, where I am passing more than 3 arguments, but I
> want to seperate them with |(pipe)or any other special charcater
> instead of blank space, cause the argument itself I have the space
> like " sixty three".
> For example c:\perl>perl sample.pl sixty three|fouty four| twenty two
> in windows.
>
> now I am passing the argument like
>
> c:\perl>perl sample.pl two three four, when you do not have the space
> in the argument itself then it is fine otherwise it is taking
> everything as an argument.
>
> Could anyone please help me on this issue?
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The correct way to do this is to quote the arguments that contain
characters the shell cares about (space, |, &, [, $, etc):
perl sample.pl 'this is one argument' two three
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