#!/usr/bin/env perl use 5.010; use strict; use warnings; use Getopt::Long; my $result = GetOptions ( h => \&help, d => sub {print "\nRun DEV COMPARE\n";}, p => \&PROD, ); say "result: $result"; bad_option() unless $result; say "\ncontinuing normally"; say "Doing stuff....."; say "exiting normally"; sub PROD {print "\nRun Production COMPARE\n";} sub help {print "\nHelp text\n";} sub bad_option { print "\nInvalid option detected... Quitting!!!\n"; exit 1; }