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(Ovid) Re: The value of $0 is your program...

by Ovid (Cardinal)
on Mar 20, 2001 at 16:51 UTC ( [id://65683]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to The value of $0 is your program...

Heh. Nice humor.

$0 is actually something that trips up a lot of C programmers who start using Perl. They expect $ARGV[0] to hold the name of the program and then pull their hair out trying to figure out why their scripts fail.

Cheers,
Ovid

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