#!/usr/bin/perl eval 'exec /usr/bin/perl -S $0 ${1+"$@"}' if $running_under_some_shell; # this emulates #! processing on NIH machines. # (remove #! line above if indigestible) eval '$'.$1.'$2;' while $ARGV[0] =~ /^([A-Za-z_0-9]+=)(.*)/ && shift; # process any FOO=bar switches $, = ' '; # set output field separator $\ = "\n"; # set output record separator while (<>) { ($Fld1) = split(' ', $_, 9999); &hello($Fld1); } sub hello { local($X) = @_; print 'hello ' . $X . ', how are you'; }