Processing ARGV

kmullin has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am a perl newbie, and am feeling very frustrated with this language. All I want to do is process command line arguments. In my PERL book, I see how to do this. So, I have a command:

#!/opt/third/party/bin/perl -w
print "Start of testARGV.pl\n";
if ($#ARGV != 0)
{
   foreach( @ARGV )
   {
      print $_;
   }
}
[download]

But when I try to run this, I get:

Start of testARGV.pl
 
./testARGV.pl:3: command not found: 0
./testARGV.pl:5: unknown file attribute
[download]

What is going on here. The only '0' in my program is in the test to see if I even have command line arguments.

I'd appreciate any perls of wisdom you may have for me.

Back to Seekers of Perl Wisdom