use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; use Getopt::Long qw(GetOptions); use feature 'say'; my %query_params; print "perl args: ".Dumper( \@ARGV ); GetOptions ( \%query_params, 'timestamp=s' ); print "query_params: ".Dumper( \%query_params ); my $report_type = $ARGV[0]; say "timestamp = $query_params{timestamp}"; say "report type = $report_type"