Re: Command line arguments not passed in Win7

[Laurent_R]

I don't have ActiveState Perl, but it works on portable Strawberry Perl and Windows 7:

PS C:\perl\strawberry-perl-5.18.0.1-64bit-portable\perl\bin> ./perl -e
+ " print qq/@ARGV\n/" foe bar
foe bar

[ccherri]

In gratitude to the monks who have helped me in the past I wanted to add... I had the command line working on my Windows 7 machine and then had to re-image the hard drive for reasons I can't explain. After the re-image, the command line parameters would not work despite the assoc, ftype, and PATHEXT all being correctly set. After a frustrating day, I just started cruising the registry and found another entry for perl under HKEY_USERS\S-1-blah-blah-blah-Classes\pl_auto_file\shell\open\command. I added the %* and viola! ITS ALIVE!. Not sure why the new instance, but just wanted to throw out there for other frustrated monks. C

[Anonymous Monk]

Thanks! I've been going crazy trying to solve exactly the same problem. I searched the registry for 'Perl.exe' and found exactly the same entry as you. Clicked 'Modify' and added the %* and all my command line arguments are now passed into the Perl script.

[Anonymous Monk]

Thank you! I just had the same issue with Windows 10, and your suggested registry edit worked. There were several places in the registry where I added %* after the "D:\Strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe" "%1".

[Anonymous Monk]

Before I tried your solution on Windows 10 with Active Perl,

tryit.pl a b c

using the ".pl" association to invoke Perl did not work, but

perl tryit.pl a b c

did work.

Then I tried your solution of adding %* to reg entries with "C:\Perl64\bin\perl.exe" "%1", and that fixed it so now

tryit.pl a b c

works and can see ARGV. Thank you!