Hey guys!
I would like to create a script which gets input from the user via the flags. I use the GetOpt module for that. It looks like:

./my_script <action> --option1 --option2 ...

Example:

./my_script create --folder empty --size 50 ...

The action is not part of the GetOpt flags so I get it as $ARGV[0].
I would like to add a new flag that gets a string which can contain other flags (or any other string in that matter), something like this:

./my_script create --folder empty --size 50 --additional hey how ---are --you 555

So I can insert it into a variable:

$var = "hey how ---are --you 555"

I did some research and found out that I can use the pass_through flag of GetOpt. Problem is that I can't use the module Getopt::Long::Configure("pass_through") so I'm stuck with Getopt::Long.
Also, I found out that I can use '--' option. But it really feels to me as a workaround and I don't want to make the users use it.

Furthermore, I can play with @ARGV array by removing the action and the additional information and then using the GetOpt, something like this:

1. insert the action into a variable and remove it from the @ARGV
2. insert the additional information into a variable and remove it from the @ARGV
3. Use GetOpt on the new @ARGV.

But it does not feel so right.
Are there any other methods? (I asked a similar question on another forum but there weren't any other answers).

In reply to GetOpt unknown args by ovedpo15

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