use strict; use warnings; use Getopt::Long qw( :config posix_default bundling no_ignore_case ); GetOptions('verbose|v' => \my $opt_verbose) or die("usage\n"); print( $opt_verbose || 0, "\n"); #### >perl 806754.pl -v 1 >perl 806754.pl --verbose 1 #### >perl 806754.pl -verbose Unknown option: e Unknown option: r Unknown option: b Unknown option: o Unknown option: s Unknown option: e usage >perl 806754.pl --verb Unknown option: verb usage >perl 806754.pl -V Unknown option: V usage >perl 806754.pl --Verbose Unknown option: Verbose usage