Re^2: getopt::std to pass arguments to command line help

[Discipulus]

hextor look at that good example by toolic and pay attention to the GetOptions ... or die; part.
This is very important because you dont want your program to execute with wrong or not accepted args.
Personally i ended using everytime yet another idiom, even more cautious:

use Getopt::Long;
use Pod::Usage;     # if you have documentation embedded is better


unless (GetOptions( "option=s" => \$option  ... ))  {
       
       pod2usage(-verbose => 1,-exitval => 'NOEXIT');    # automatic u
+sage printing (if you have an usage section in POD)
       &wait_for_input;                                  # if the prog
+ was opend in a 'double click' fashion there is no time 
                                                         # to review e
+rrors, if so you can just use something like:
                                                         # sub wait_fo
+r_input{ 
                                                         #   print "\n
+\nPress Return when ready\n";
                                                         #   while (<S
+TDIN>){last if $_ }
                                                         # }
       exit;                                             # now you can
+ exit or die with yet another error string
}

HtH
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