I am running ActiveState Perl 5.8.7 on Windows XP. I am using Getopt::Std for command line options. When I execute the program implicitly (sample.pl -h) the command line option is not recognized. When I execute the program explicitly (perl sample.pl -h) the command line option is recognized. What must I do to have the command line option recognized when executing the program implicitly? Following is a sample which shows the problem. TIA. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use vars qw($opt_h);
use Getopt::Std;
getopts("hiy:");

if(defined $opt_h) {
   print "\n";
   print "  Usage: sample.pl [options]\n";
   print "Options:\n";
   print "                 -h         display help.\n";
   exit;
}

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