If you are using perl, you may find it necessary to take some command line arguments to your scripts.  When that time comes, there is a very handy variable ARGV that contains the passed in arguments.

To get the total number of arguments passed into the script you will need to use the following:

$totcommandargs = #$ARGV + 1

is equal to the number of arguments passed in to the Perl script.

Note: you need to add one to the count to get the correct number of variables.

To address the variables you use the following to address the first argument: $ARGV[0]

will address the first argument

Since arrays are addressed by n-1, to get the first element you use 0 {zero}, for the second 1, for the third {2}, and so on.

$0 will give the name of the currently executing script.

#!/usr/bin/perl

$argcount =  $#ARGV +1;
print "The script $0 has $argcount argumentsn";

for( $i = 0; $i < $argcount;$i++)
{
print $ARGV[$i] . "n";
}