I am fixing up a script which makes use of $ARGV[0-3] plus a command line parameter, so when calling the script, it looks like this:

script.pl -x opt1 opt2 opt3 opt4

  • opt2-4 are optional
  • -x can be one of several differnt options.
  • I cant change the behavior of this script - its called by a program I can't change

    • Id like to use Getopt::Long but Im not sure how to tell it

  • -x needs 3 additional arguments
  • -y needs 2 additional arguments
  • -z only needs 1 additional argument
  • $ARGV[0] will always mean the same thing for -x -y or -z


    • Currently this script is working, but as Im fixing it and extending some of the behaviors Getopt::Long looks to be the module to use which would make my life, and anyone else who may have to modify this script, easier. By reading Getopt::Long docs it doesn't look possible. Is this possible, or should I be looking at another module? If so which one? For reference a portion of this code has already been posted: Unexpected results returned from a hash. Where zaxo suggested I try Getopt::Long.

    UPDATE
    Changed title to "-x accepts up to 3 additional arguments", on blazars suggestion



    Thanks
    Ted
    --
    "That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved."
      --Ralph Waldo Emerson

    In reply to -x accepts up to 3 additional arguments by tcf03

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