Greetings, monks I found myself wondering what would be the nicest way to parse commandline arguments. Previously i was using something like this: 
for($i=0; $i<@ARGV; $i+=2) {
    $ip   = $ARGV[$i+1] if $ARGV[$i] eq '-i' || $ARGV[$i] eq '--ip';
    $port = $ARGV[$i+1] if $ARGV[$i] eq '-p' || $ARGV[$i] eq '--port';
}

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Much like one would do it in c. Now i found this way, which is much nicer: 
while(@ARGV) {
    $_ = shift @ARGV;

    $ip   = shift @ARGV if /-i/ || /--ip/;
    $port = shift @ARGV if /-p/ || /--port/;
}

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Note that i expected shift @ARGV would work. Oh well. How would you do it? Thanks for your wisdom :-)

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