#!/usr/bin/env perl use 5.010; use strict; use warnings; use Getopt::Long; my %opt; GetOptions(\%opt, 'v'); say 'Before assigning $opt{input}:'; if ($opt{v}) { say $ARGV[0], ' (verbose)'; } else { say $ARGV[0], ' (quiet)'; } $opt{input} = $ARGV[0]; say 'After assigning $opt{input}:'; if ($opt{v}) { say $opt{input}, ' (verbose)'; } else { say $opt{input}, ' (quiet)'; }