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From: bill@camco.Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Can perl handle multi-word arguments?
Keywords: arguments, perl
Message-ID: <585@camco.Celestial.COM>
Date: 21 Dec 90 02:18:20 GMT
Organization: Celestial Software, Mercer Island, WA
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I was working on the getopts.pl yesterday fixing a problem where
multiple options are present.  Specifically with a front end for
[ntx]roff where it is common to have multiple -r options.

As I was doing this I tried to fix make getopts.pl work for
quoted arguments as in 'mail -s "THIS IS THE SUBJECT" user', but
found that even though the argument to -s is quoted perl treats
it a bunch of single word arguments.

Is there a way to make perl work like the shell, c, and most
other programs?

By the way, I did get the multiple arguments working.

Thanks

Bill
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