Well, in my example it is required. I must have misunderstood your question. If you want to require -l to be paired with a value, but not specifying -l is okay, too, try this:

use strict;
use warnings;
use Getopt::Long;
use vars qw($opt_u $opt_h $opt_a $opt_l);

#Note that l=s says that l requires an option
#   l:s means that it is optional
#   I have chosen the option method here so that
#   I can handle it how I want programatically
&GetOptions('l:s','u','h','a') || exit 1;

print "Option found: u\n" if ($opt_u);
print "Option found: h\n" if ($opt_h);
print "Option found: a\n" if ($opt_a);
if (defined $opt_l) {
    print "Option found: l\n";
    if ($opt_l) {
    print "  with value: $opt_l\n";
    } else {
    print "  No value specified.\n";
    }
}

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In reply to RE: RE: Re: Getopts and required args by Shendal
in thread Getopts and required args by husker

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