Have you looked at Getopt::Simple or the Getopt::Long

These will handle your script with -a or --a options.

Below is a snippet of an example which came from a Win32 service script.

use Getopt::Long;

my %Config = (
    timeout_value       =>  2,
    log_file            =>  join( "", Win32::GetFullPathName( $0 ) ),
);  

$Config{log_file} =~ s/[^.]*?$/log/;

Getopt::Long::Configure( "prefix_pattern=(-|\/)" );
$Result = GetOptions( \%Config,
                      qw(
                        install|i
                        remove|r
                        timeout_value|t=i
                        log_file|l=s
                        monitor_sub_dirs|s
                        account_id|user=s
                        account_password|pass=s
                        help|?|h
                      ) );
$Config{help} = 1 if( ! $Result || scalar @ARGV );
if( $Config{install} )
{
    Install();
    exit();
}
elsif( $Config{remove} )
{
    Remove();
    exit();
}

if( $Config{help} )
{
    Syntax();
    exit();
}

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In reply to Re: Running perl functions from a command line by AcidHawk
in thread Running perl functions from a command line by wizard341

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