jeffa is quite right...here's what I tend to do, since the next natural thing is to assign each option out into a meaningfully named scalar
my %opts;
getopts("d:a:s:e:", \%opt);
my $Directory = $opts{'d'} || '/home/maverick';
my $Address = $opts{'a'} || 'somewhere@overtherainbow.com';
my $Silent = $opts{'s'} || 0;
my $Extended = $opts{'e'} || 0;
This way I don't have to remember what's in $opts{'d'} and neither does whoever reads my code later. Plus the defaults are really easy to spot.
/\/\averick
perl -l -e "eval pack('h*','072796e6470272f2c5f2c5166756279636b672');"
