Kevin Viel wrote:
> I call a perl script from SAS using a pipe. The file on which the
> script acts changes. Is there a way to provide the file name to the
> script using STDIN on the command line? The SAS call looks like:
>
> filename ABI pipe "perl C:/base.ps" ;
>
> For now, I altered the script to read a text file containing the file
> name, but this is wasteful. I appreciate any comments.
>
I'm not exactly sure what you're asking but try this:
my $filename = <STDIN>;
chomp $filename;
@ARGV = ( $filename );
while(<>){
...
}
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__END__
Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth,
--- Shawn
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doing them."
Aristotle
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