#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; # https://perlmonks.org/?node_id=11160457 use warnings; use Getopt::Long; $SIG{__WARN__} = sub { die @_ }; @ARGV = qw( --foo 123 --bar 456 --foo 789 something extra ); use Data::Dump 'dd'; dd '@ARGV before', \@ARGV; my @fooarray; my @bararray; GetOptions 'foo=s' => \@fooarray, 'bar=s' => \@bararray; use Data::Dump 'dd'; dd 'fooarray', \@fooarray; use Data::Dump 'dd'; dd 'bararray', \@bararray; use Data::Dump 'dd'; dd '@ARGV after', \@ARGV; #### ( "\@ARGV before", ["--foo", 123, "--bar", 456, "--foo", 789, "something", "extra"], ) ("fooarray", [123, 789]) ("bararray", [456]) ("\@ARGV after", ["something", "extra"])