Hi Experts,

I am running a perl script which uses GetOpt::Long

giveinfo.pl -name mike -long

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where, -name option ("name=s") needs a mandatory string argument

-long is optional flag if set, will provide more details of the user named mike

If i miss the user name while running giveinfo.pl as below then it does not error out -

giveinfo.pl -name -long

In this case, its treating -long as user name and DOES NOT error out. I want that in above case it should error out and say "Option name requires an argument".

FYI. in the below scenario it error out as expected if i use -name at the end of command line - 

giveinfo.pl -long -name
Option name requires an argument

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Can someone please help how can i error out correctly in the below scenerio which is missing name mike -

giveinfo.pl -name -long

I don't want to use "=" as - 

giveinfo.pl -name= -long

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Thanks and Regards,

Harry

In reply to getopt::long treating option as an argument by harpreetsammi

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