Hi monks,
when i use Getopt::Long in a perl file and call the perl file alone it works but if i call the perl file within a shell script passing all the command line options to the perl file they wont work..... down is the example code 

use Getopt::Long;
my %options;
$ret=GetOptions(
"i" => \$options{i},
"o=s" => \$options{o},
"p=s" => \$options{p},
"h" => \$options{h}
);

if ( $ret=="" || exists $options{'h'} || !@ARGV) {
    print " \nCommand line options:
    -i        interactive
    -o file   give a file
    -h        help
    -p value  personal
exit;
}
else {
    if (exists $options{i}) {
        print "i is enabled\n";
    }
    if (exists $options{o}) {
        print "o is enabled file is $options{o}\n";
    }
    if (exists $options{p}) {
        print "p is enabled value is $options{p}\n";
    }
}

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now the line in shell script is 

perl ex.pl $*

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here $* has the command line arguments

if the ex.pl is run with perl on the shell prompt i get proper output. but when i run the shell script with the same command line arguments i dont get the desired output....is it the problem with "exists" or the getopts

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In reply to problem with Getopt::Long by syedtoah

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