You could use the lone dash trick ( -- ) to separate multiple channel options. Some more thought needs to go into how to trap bad input, however. (This code doesn't handle bad input properly.)


use Getopt::Long;
use Pod::Usage;
use YAML;

my @config;

while (@ARGV) {
    print join(', ',@ARGV) . "\n";
    my %opt;
    shift if $ARGV[0] eq '-';
    GetOptions(
           \%opt,
           'C|channel=i',
           'F|forever',
           'H|hours=i',
           'M|minutes=i',
          ) or pod2usage(2);
    push @config, \%opt;
}

print YAML::Dump(\@config);

__END__

=head Synopsis

>perl tvopt.pl -C 10 -F -- --channel 1 --hours 10 --minutes 20

-C, 10, -F, --, --channel, 1, --hours, 10, --minutes, 20
--channel, 1, --hours, 10, --minutes, 20

--- #YAML:1.0
- C: 10
  F: 1
- C: 1
  H: 10
  M: 20
  
=cut

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--Solo

--
You said you wanted to be around when I made a mistake; well, this could be it, sweetheart.

In reply to Re: GetOptions problem by Solo
in thread GetOptions problem by bory

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