note toolic Another way is to store all your opt in a hash instead of individual scalars: <c> use warnings; use strict; use Getopt::Long; use Data::Dumper; $Data::Dumper::Sortkeys=1; my %opt; GetOptions(\%opt, qw( help cfg=s verbose silent dir=s )) or die "Mandatory options not supplied\n"; print Dumper(\%opt); __END__ script.pl -h -v $VAR1 = { 'help' => 1, 'verbose' => 1 }; </c> <p> <ul> <li>[doc://Getopt::Long] </ul> 985194 985194