Several things here: First, you are not passing an array from the shell, shell arrays are variables that cannot be exported, except to another shell of the same type.
The "wild card" characters are not passed into your script, they are expanded by the shell. You are actually passing into your script -file myfile.txt yourfile.txt ourfile.txt, there is no "-file" at the front of each one. On Bash or Ksh use 'set -x' to see the effect.
If you want to pass in '*.txt' from the shell, put it in quotes: ./script.pl -file '*.txt'. However, unless you are calling glob your script will look for a file called '*.txt'. Which probably is not what you want. Why bother with the -file option and Getopts if all you want is a list of filenames?

In reply to Re: Getopt Long and processing arrays from Linux shell by Anonymous Monk
in thread Getopt Long and processing arrays from Linux shell by Scrat

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