There is a difference between the getopt() method and the getopts() method which is the boolean one you want. Read the docs for details. With getopt() if you supply the command line argument -p12 then $opt_p = '12'. If you go -p then you just get an undefined value. With getopts() if you go -p you get then $opt_p = '1' which is what I imagine you want. If you don't supply the -p command line arg then you get an undefined value. This is presumably fixed version. 1 lousy 's' is all that was missing! 

use strict;
use warnings;
use Getopt::Std;
use LWP::UserAgent;

our($opt_p);
getopts('p'); # getopts() not getopt()

print "\nThe value in \$opt_p is ";
print defined($opt_p) ? "'$opt_p'" : "undefined";

my $agent = LWP::UserAgent->new();
($opt_p == 1 ? $agent->env_proxy() : $agent->proxy(http => $opt_p)) if
+ (defined($opt_p));

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tachyon

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In reply to Re: Getting commandline params by tachyon
in thread Getting commandline params by Amoe

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