in reply to Scalar to @ARGV for Getopt::Std

You may be over-thinking this.

"getopt" will split @argv for you, and do the right thing. 

perl -MGetopt::Std -E  'getopts("oif:"); say $_,"=",${"opt_$_"} for qw
+|o i f|' -- -o -f this 
o=1
i=
f=this

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