Passing ARGS [an array] To Perl

[stu215]

Problem : I Have an array of Job_Id's ex. [133, 137, 140] and want to pass the array to perl so that I can do stuff with it.

I tried exporting $job_id but that didnt work.
Also tried : system("<perl script> $job_id");

But that just seems to send the word "Array" to the perl script.
I read it in in the perl script using : @jobs=$ARGV[0];

[elfynmcb]

Hey,

I don't think it would be possible to do that. However you can do it this way, by foreach'in the array and build up a string to pass to perl...

<?php

// $arr has your data in it
foreach( $arr as $key => $value )
{
    if( strstr($value," ") )
    {
        $pl_str .= "\"$value\" ";
    }
    else
    {
        $pl_str .= "$value ";
    }
}
system("<your perl program> $pl_str");

?>

[stu215]

Im not quite sure what the limit of chars is on a unix command line, but I tried to avoid this originally because after a certain point I thought it would get cut off ...?

-The array Im passing is a list of job_id's, (queries to be run on a D😎 and after a few weeks I believe it will be quite large.

-Was hoping to pass the array of job_id's to perl so i could use threads and have multiple jobs run at once.

Any other suggestions ???

Thanks,
~Stu