@ARGV not working with Windows Server 2003 service pack 2

[cdleekeenan]

I cannot access command line variables, e.g. $ARGV[0], using perl on a Windows 2003 server with service pack 2.
Does anyone know of a bug or a work around?
Here's my test....
when I enter "test.pl hi", I get "no arguments".

#!c:\perl\bin\perl.exe
#test.pl
if (defined($ARGV[0])) {
    print "input parm=$ARGV[0]\n";
} else {
    print "no arguments\n";
}
exit;
 

[cdleekeenan]

I discovered that if I run the program prefaced with "perl", it works.
So it 'half' works without the "perl" preface (i.e. the second print statement works, so perl is running in some fashion), and it works completely if I use "perl" before the program name. I am guessing it is some sort of operating system defect. Any thoughts? (at least I have a work around)

[numberwhun]

As a general rule, on Windows, you should always issue your programs as:

c:\> perl script.pl [options]

Just stick to that and things will work better. If you really want to use the shebang and not have to use the above format, then switch to a *nix operating system such as Linux or Solaris.

Regards,

Jeff

[cdleekeenan]

I discovered that the path environment variable had c:\perl\site\bin and c:\perl\bin. When I removed the c:\perl\site\bin entry, the problem was fixed.

[numberwhun]

Good to hear and thank you for the follow up!

Regards,

Jeff