Hi, I am trying to figure out the right way to declare the $opt_* varable in Getopt::Std when use strict pragma. If I declare empty varables with my, they get passed to the script, but if I don't I get a "Global Symbol $opt_* requires explicit... error message. Commenting out use strict and it runs fine. Would loading the opt values into an array work? Thanks. 
use strict;


use Getopt::Std;

# my $opt_J="file";
# my $opt_f="file";
# my $opt_s="status";
# my $STATUS="stat";

getopts("J:f:s:");

if ($opt_J)
{
    print "Writing output to $opt_J \n";
}
if ($opt_f)
{
    print "Writing output== to $opt_f \n";
}
if ($opt_s)
{
    print "Status $opt_s \n";
}

#my $STATUS="AC";
#my $STATUS;

$STATUS=$opt_s;
print "Status is $STATUS \n";

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