multiple entries per option (Getopt)

[mlebel]

Hello everyone,

I am wondering if there is a way to have multiple entries passed for a single option when launching a perl script. (the only post that I found this on was using getopt::long but i didn't quite understand the answer)

Here is an example of what I mean:

testmachine># ./testcode.pl -o entry1 entry2

or 

testmachine># ./testcode.pl -o entry1 -o entry2

If this is possible, what would be the code to handle this within a perl script?

If it is not possible, how could a situation like that be handled?

Any help is appreciated!

Thanks, Marc.

[toolic]

Options with multiple values

[Perlbotics]

You could feed your examples to the following program and see what happens... The important part is the "o=s" telling Getopt to look for -o switches with a string argument and the array-ref telling it to accumulate the -o arguments into an array.

use strict;
use warnings;
use Getopt::Long;

my @o_list;

unless ( GetOptions ("o=s" => \@o_list) ) {
  print "GetOptions had problems parsing ARGV!\n";
}

print "List of  -o things: ", join(", ", @o_list), "\n";
print "Unparsed arguments: ", join(", ", @ARGV  ), "\n";

[mlebel]

you guy's are awesome!

Through both of your posts, I was able to achieve exacly what i needed. And with the added bonus that I understand what is happening.

Thank you toolic and perlbotics!