i am using getopt::long and have a couple of options that i would like to check on the values users pass along to them. for example, when i use 'upload=s' => \$upload, i'd like to limit what the string value being passed would be. so i wrote

if ($upload eq "run") {
  &copy_tftp_run;
  exit(0);

} elsif ($upload eq "start") {
  &copy_tftp_start;
  exit(0);

} elsif ($upload) {
  print "\nYour destination choice for Uploads does not appear to be v
+alid.\n\n"
;
  exit(1);
}

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however, when i run the program with --upload and a value other than "run" or "start", i get an error dealing with the next for loop. i would have thought that the final elsif statement would test true for something like --upload dog causijg the error statement to print and the script to exit.

humbly -c

In reply to using 'value=s' = \$value by c

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