Dude, these guys who responded above obviously didn't understand your question, or were just too quick to answer without checking.

Anwyay, the solution is actually quite simple, you just need to add use vars qw($useTR);. Here's some sample code and example run: 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use vars qw($a $b);

print "a: $a\n";
print "b: $b\n";

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and sample run: 
[me@host]$ perl -s tmp.pl -a
a: 1
b: 
[me@host]$

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OK, though... all that being said I'd still recomend using Getopt::Long instead of just the -s switch, if for no other reason than that the user has to supply "-s" before your script when they run it (yes, folks, before you jump on me... I tested putting -s in the shebang line and it didn't work... which, frankly, shocked the heck out of me... maybe it's a bug in 5.005_03, or maybe it's a "feature"). 
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In reply to Re: use strict; and command line options by etcshadow
in thread use strict; and command line options by hehenoobhehe

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