OK, I'm a newbie; so please don't laugh too loud or flame me here, but this one is driving me crazy.

The goal here is to be able to pass /? to my perl app as a command line arg and have it return the text that follows __DATA__. To save space, I've only listed the pertinent code. And yes, I've tested this portion only with the same results.

The following code works: 
use strict;
package SAR;

&get_args (@ARGV);

sub get_args {
    my @help = <DATA>;
    ($ARGV[0] eq "/?") && (die @help);
}

return 1;

__DATA__

testing 1
testing 2
testing 3

[download]
When ran as c:>test.pl /?
It returns:

testing 1
testing 2
testing 3

as expected.

However, after turning it into an exe with perlapp it no longer works. Running c:>test.exe /? will return "Died at test.pl line 8." unless I wrap the @help array in quotes, then it just returns a few blank lines and goes back to the prompt.
I've tried including the package (i.e. SAR::DATA) thinking it might have something to do with the fact that perlapp is adding a lot of other modules and maybe it's getting confused about which module to pull DATA from, but that didn't work. It gives the same results.

I promise I've done my homework. I searched this website, activestates documentation, perldoc, and several books on perl. I just can't find an answer anywhere. Any insight here would be greatly appreciated.

In reply to perlapp, die, and __DATA__ by joker0927

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