[lug] Perl question

[Evelyn Mitchell]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 05:07:27PM -0700, KELLEY SCOTT T wrote:
> 
> All I want to do is check whether some file names have been entered on the
> command line, and if not ask the user for the filenames. The name of the
> perl script is "blastem" so execution would look like this:
> 
> >blastem [filename1] [filename2]
> 
> or this
> 
> >blastem

$testme = shift @ARGV;   # pop off the leftmost item passed on the commandline
                             into $testme

> 
> Also I forget how to convert from strings to ints (e.g. '3' to 3).

It's automagical in perl. Just use one as the other.

Evelyn Mitchell
efm at tummy.com