sub getOpts { my %opts; my @toDelete; for( my $i=0; $i < @ARGV; ++$i ) { $_ = $ARGV[ $i ]; if( m[^-(.)(.*)$] ) { my( $first, $rest ) = ( $1, $2 ); push @toDelete, $i; next unless defined $first; if( $first ne '-' ) { $opts{ $_ } = 1 for $first, split'',$rest; next; } last if $rest eq ''; if( $ARGV[ $i+1 ] !~ m[^-] ) { $opts{ $rest } = $ARGV[ ++$i ]; push @toDelete, $i; } if( $rest =~ m[^no(.+)$] ) { $opts{ $1 } = 0; } else { $opts{ $rest } = 1; } } } splice @ARGV, $_, 1 for reverse @toDelete; return %opts; }