in reply to get array from getoptions
First:, add "use strict; use warnings;" to the top.
Getopt::Long doesn't handle something like "-f test_1 test_2". It will handle "-f test_1 -f test_2" or "-f test_1,test_2" (you do the split), or even "-f 'test_1 test_2'" (again, split after you get the args).
Alternately, you can have it treat -f as a boolean, then grab the filenames test_1 and test_2 from @ARGV after Getopt::Long has done its thing.
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