I'm using Perl's GetOpt::ArgParse module to handle runtime-argument parsing. However, I'm having problems accessing the argument values of the parser object after they are parsed. 

require Getopt::ArgParse;

$ap = Getopt::ArgParse->new_parser
  {
      prog => "test_argparse.pl",
      description => "Test the Getopt::Argparse module"
  }

$ap->add_argument('-c', '--count', type => Scalar);

$ap->add_argument('-f', '--flag', type => Bool);

$args = $ap->parse_args();

# Now, I am assuming that $args is a pointer to a hash array
# that contains elements for "count" and "flag"

if (! defined($args{'count'})) {
   print "count not defined\n";
}

# The above code always prints the message even though I 
# executed the program with both options:
#
# > test_argparse.pl -c 10
# > test_argparse.pl --count 10

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So how do I access the arguments in $args? I'm coming from a Python background and while Python makes the arguments attributes of the arg object, Perl seems to store it in a dictionary I looked at this website for helpe (http://search.cpan.org/~mytram/Getopt-ArgParse-1.0.2/lib/Getopt/ArgParse.pm) but there were no examples. I tried the "say" example but it didnt' work.

In reply to How to access GetOpt::ArgParse arguments? by SQADude

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