If I use the -e option when running the program everything works OK. When I try the -d option I get the line telling me to "Use -e to encrypt or -d to decrypt". I'm sure it's something simple that I'm missing or left out. Any ideas?

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use Crypt::RC4;
use Getopt::Std;
system('clear');
getopts('ed:', \%opts);
if ($opts{e})
{
print "Enter Passphrase: ";
chomp ($passphrase = <stdin>);
print "Enter Plaintext: ";
chomp ($plaintext = <stdin>);
$encrypted = RC4 ( $passphrase, $plaintext );
$passphrase = "";
print "Enter the file name to save to:";
chomp ($filename = <stdin>);
print "Encrypting........\n";
open(FILE,">$filename");
print FILE $encrypted;
close FILE or die "There was an error closing the file\n";
} elsif ($opts{d})
{
print "option e not used\n";
} else{
print "Use -e to encrypt or -d to decrypt\n";
}

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In reply to GetOpts problem..........I think......... by void

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