How to handle with command line argument values in Perl

Perl command line arguments stored in the special array called @ARGV.

ARGV example

Use $ARGV[n] to display argument.

Use $#ARGV to get total number of passed argument to a perl script.

For example, if your scriptname is foo.pl and you called script as follows:

./foo.pl one two three

You can print one, two, three command line arguments with print command:

print “$ARGV[$0]\n”;
print “$ARGV[$1]\n”;
print “$ARGV[$2]\n”;

Or just use a loop to display all command line args:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
foreach $num (0 .. $#ARGV) {
print “$ARGV[$num]\\n”;
}

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