use Getopt::Long qw( GetOptionsFromArray ); sub do_awesome_things { GetOptionsFromArray( \@_, 'files=s' => \my @files, 'verbose!' => \my $verbose, ); warn "Going to process files @files. " . "Verbose is ".( $verbose ? 'ON' : 'OFF' ).".\n"; } do_awesome_things -v => -file => 'foo.txt', -file => 'bar.txt';