I decided not to be as thorough as above, but that was good info for me to keep squirelled away. I did couple google searches and ran across Getopt and did the following: 
use Utils;
use Getopt::Long;

my $conf_file = '';
GetOptions ('conf=s' => \$conf_file);

if ( length($conf_file) == 0)
{
  print "\nUsage: loadSMSC -conf=/path/to/config.properties\n";
  exit;
}

%props = getProperties("$conf_file");
$node_name = $props{"node"};
$machine = $props{"machine"};
$username = $props{"username"};
$passwd = $props{"passwd"};
$directory = $props{"directory"};
$localpath = $props{"localpath"};
$log_name = $props{"log.name"};
$numRows = $props{"rows"};

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getProperties is in Utils.pm and goes a little something like: 
sub getProperties($)
{
    my ($propfile) = @_;
    my (%props);    # Return value: a hash of property values.
    my ($ln,$name,$value,@nv);

    open(PROPFILE,"$propfile") or die "Unable to open $propfile";
    while ($ln = <PROPFILE>)
    {
        chomp $ln;
        $ln =~ s/#(.*$)//;    # Remove line comments in the properties
+ file.
        @nv = split /s*=/,$ln,2;
        $value = pop @nv;
        $value =~ s/^\s*=?\s*//;
        $value =~ s/\s*$//;
        $name = pop @nv;
        $name =~ s/^\s*//;
        $name =~ s/\s*$//;
        if ($name ne "")
        {
            $props{$name} = $value;
        }
    }
    close(PROPFILE);
    return %props;
}

sub dumpProperties
{
  my (%props) = @_;
  foreach $prop (keys %props)
  {
    #print "\t\t$prop\n";
    print "\t\t$prop:$props{$prop}\n";
  }
  1;
}

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Thanks for the input!

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