Thanks for the suggestion and for the sample code.

For me I guess "clunky and difficult to manage" comes from the Camel book, pages 452-453 where, using getops you have something like: 

my $debug = 0;

getopt('dlv');

if ($opt_d) {
    $debug = 1;
}

if ($opt_l) {
    # do something with arg l
}

if ($opt_v) {
    # do something with arg v
}

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To me that is not very managable. I can see from your code example and from the CPAN docs for Getopt::Long that this might actually be more workable for me.

I presume that I have to set some sort of option to be able to use "-d" rather than "-debug"?

In reply to Re^2: getting args without clobbering @ARGV by bfdi533
in thread getting args without clobbering @ARGV by bfdi533

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