You could just add an exit–

        print "help is called - Help Panel:\n";
        exit;

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I’d recommend looking at Pod::Usage instead of trying to roll this kind of thing though. Working stub–

# File named "my-script-name.pl" to match Pod.
use strict;
use warnings;
use Getopt::Long;
use Pod::Usage;

my $ok = GetOptions( help => \my $help,
                     task => \my $do_something );

pod2usage( -verbose => 0 ) unless $ok;

pod2usage( -verbose => 2 ) if $help;

print "Doing... ", $do_something ?
    "something or other\n" : "NOTHING!\n";

__DATA__

=head1 Synopsis

 my-script-name.pl -help
 my-script-name.pl -task

=head1 License

WTFPL (NSFW!).

=cut

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In reply to Re: PERL - newbie: first time working with GetOptions error given when running script by Your Mother
in thread PERL - newbie: first time working with GetOptions error given when running script by lshokri02

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