Hi i'm seeking the perl wisdom for a short problem A nagios will launch my script every hour and sometime i will need the where but not always. My problem is that when i don't use a condition, the script use a SQL request with a where empty but what i want is not to use a where when i launch the script without the argument. 
my $oracle_connector = Monitoring::Plugin->new(
  shortname => 'File attente STATUS =',
  usage =>
    'Usage : %s [ -t|--table=<threshold> ] [ -k|--condition=<threshold
+> ] [ -c|--critical=<threshold> ] [ -w|--warning=<threshold> ]',

);

 $oracle_connector->add_arg(
  spec => 'condition|k=s',
  help => 'Condition for the request',
  label => 'REQUEST',
  required => 0,    #Argument not required
       );

my $condition = $oracle_connector->opts->condition;
my $where = "WHERE status = '$condition'";

my $sth = $db->prepare("SELECT COUNT (*)  from CONNECTOR.$table $where
+");

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In reply to Argument problem when using a perl script by Jeylox

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