in reply to Re: Code Cleanup challenge!
in thread Code Cleanup challenge!

As long as the options are all being stored in one hash anyhow, I think the reference-to-options-hash usage of Getopts::Long is easier to read:
[snip] # Process and validate the command line options in @ARGV. my %options; GetOptions ( \%options, qw{ infile=s outfile=s help } ) or help(); [snip]