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There's a few ways to do this, here's two.
You can scan through the values in @ARGV, one of perl's special variables. It contains all of the arguments following the script's name. From the description you give, this is probably good enough.
There's also the module Getopt::Std. If you want to expand on the meaning and kinds of options, like script.pl -c "Foo.txt" :e -o=n, getopt is your man.

Since you're teaching yourself, here's some basic ideas :
Anything within 'core perl' is available in the core documentation. If you think you haven't found it, look again. :)
Anything not in the core distribution can usually be found in CPAN. Almost any kind of module can be found here; quality varies occasionally, but most are very strong.
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In reply to Re: command line options by boo_radley
in thread command line options by Bladernr

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