I agree with what's been said here. I too haven't used Getopt::Easy, but use Getopt::Long all of the time. The main reason to not use Getopt::Easy that I can see would be that it isn't a CORE module and would need to be installed on every machine where it is used.

While we're sharing coding idioms.... here is what I always do for commandline arguments: 

use strict; 
use Getopt::Long; 

# Main body 
eval { 
     my $options = { 
                      'help'       => 0, 
                      'verbose'    => 0, 
                      'config'     => '/etc/myapp.conf',
     }; 

     GetOptions( 
                      'help'       => \$$options{help},
                      'verbose!'   => \$$options{verbose},
                      'config=s'   => \$$options{config},
     ); 

}; 
print "ERROR: $@" if $@;

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This lets you set defaults for your options and GetOptions() handles any commandline overrides by the user.

Frank Wiles <frank@revsys.com>
www.revsys.com

In reply to Re: Seeking Getopt recommendations - anyone used Getopt::Easy? by ides
in thread Seeking Getopt recommendations - anyone used Getopt::Easy? by theguvnor

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