Greetings,

I'm having trouble parsing args from an array. Consider this code:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;
use Getopt::Long 'GetOptionsFromArray';
use feature 'say';

my @args  = @ARGV; 
my %query_params;

print "perl args: ".Dumper( \@args );

GetOptionsFromArray (
   \@args, \%query_params,
   'timestamp'
);  
print "query_params: ".Dumper( \%query_params );

my $report_type = $args[0];

say "timestamp = $query_params{timestamp}";
say "report type = $report_type"

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Results:

./foo.pl class myclass -t 2014-09-08:14:00T-004
perl args: $VAR1 = [
          'class',
          'myclass',
          '-t',
          '2014-09-08:14:00T-004'
        ];
query_params: $VAR1 = {
          'timestamp' => 1
        };
timestamp = 1
report type = class

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Why is timestamp's value 1 and not 2014-09-08:14:00T-004?

Neil Watson
watson-wilson.ca

In reply to Help with getopt::long and GetOptionsFromArray by neilwatson

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