Hi, I'm new to Perl and so I'm just starting to understand its power. I'm trying to run a perl script so that users can call it and pass certain arguments in. e.g. ascript -d db1 -i inst1 or ascript -ddb1 -i inst1 My solution is okay but as I'm trying to get a feel of perl I'm guessing there is a better way. ( A case of right answer but probably not best perl solution). I'm after advice really and getting into the perl programmers frame of mind rather than a C developer. 
   ... cut ...
   my $str_arg = join " ",@ARGV;
   #remove spaces
   $str_arg =~ s/\s//g;
   @args= split /-/, $str_arg;
   shift @args;

   for my $arg (@args)
   {
      my $opt = substr($arg,0,1);

      switch ($opt)
      {
     case /d/
     { 
        #this is taking the value off.
        $options{$opt}=$arg;
        print "This is a database $options{$opt}\n";
     }
     case /i/
     { 
        $options{$opt}=$arg;
        print "This is an instance $options{$opt}\n";
     }
     else
     {
        print "Error arg not recognised!!!\n";
     }
      }       
   }

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Thanks, DanDan Thanks for all your great help... The solutions and ideas and pointers are spot on. Thanks, DanDan.

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