Umm, using too much vertical white space? Not saying what you expected to see? Printing a reference rather than dereferencing it?

If the latter is the problem then try this version (note the @$value in the print):

use strict;
use warnings;
use Getopt::Long;

my $key;
my $value;
my %options;

GetOptions (\%options, 'names:s@', 'address:s@');

while (($key, $value) = each %options) {
    print "$key = @$value\n";
}

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Prints:

names = Manny

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Or using -names Manny -names Meany -names Minnie on the command line it prints names = Manny Meany Minnie.

DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel

In reply to Re: trouble acessing array result from GetOptions by GrandFather
in thread trouble acessing array result from GetOptions by dark314

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