A couple of things you will want to read up on.

First, you should look into storing the options in a hash, instead of passing a reference to a variable for each one. It's much easier. See Storing options in a hash for info on that.

Second is aliases, or Options_with_multiple_names. Pretty straight-forward.

Last, you want to look into Bundling for info on allowing the -vds 24 form.

And here's some example code! 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

use Getopt::Long;
Getopt::Long::Configure('bundling');

our %Options;
GetOptions(\%Options,
  'size|s=i',           # The | separates aliases, ie: s == size
  'verbose|v',          # What comes before the | is the name, which
  'debug|d',            # determines what hash entry (or variable) is 
+set.
);

print "Debug mode\n" if $Options{debug};
print "Verbose mode\n" if $Options{verbose};
print "Size is: `$Options{size}'\n" if exists $Options{size};
print "Done.\n";

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This will take --verbose --size=24, or --size 24 -vd, or -vds24, or just about any other combination thereof. :)

bbfu
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In reply to (bbfu) (hash, bundling, aliases) Re(2): better cli processing by bbfu
in thread better cli processing by AlCapone

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