Re^3: How to write a program to read stdin or command line?

[runrig]

in reply to Re^2: How to write a program to read stdin or command line?
in thread How to write a program to read stdin or command line?

In that case I would just shift off any required arguments from @ARGV, then process the file list with <> (or manually with open, etc., if I were paranoid about using <>).

[jdporter]

...just shift off any required arguments from @ARGV...

Exactly. Or, if it makes sense, use something a little more sophisticated, such as Getopt::Long, to extract them from the @ARGV array.