I wish to create a wrapper script that checks certain arguments for type yet passes along all unrecognized arguments to ARGV. I thought I figured out the correct syntax for Getopt::Long:Configure but the arguments are NOT seemed to be checked for proper type. I've type the following and I'm not seeing my code exit: 

testscript -lib 1.0 -cell -a -f

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-------------- testscript --------------------------- 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use vars qw($opt_lib $opt_cell);
use IO::File;
use English;
use strict;
use Getopt::Long; 
Getopt::Long::Configure('no_auto_abbrev','pass_through');
GetOptions('lib=s','cell=s') or exit 1;

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Thanks for any help you can provide.

Edit: g0n - code tags and formatting

In reply to Issues w/ getOptions parsing options with pass_through enabled by Brawny1

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