I think Getopt::Long might be able to help. It can stuff all arguments into a hash variable: 
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;
use Getopt::Long;
my $args = 'nmap -sS -iL ips.txt -p 1-1024 172.27.1.4';

@ARGV = split /\s+/, $args;
my %opt;
GetOptions(\%opt, 'sS', 'iL=s', 'p=s');
print 'opt hash ', Dumper(\%opt);
print 'ARGV ', Dumper(\@ARGV);

__END__

opt hash $VAR1 = {
          'sS' => 1,
          'p' => '1-1024',
          'iL' => 'ips.txt'
        };
ARGV $VAR1 = [
          'nmap',
          '172.27.1.4'
        ];

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Update: related node: search array for item, move to next item

In reply to Re: find element in array, then advance to next element by toolic
in thread find element in array, then advance to next element by kathys39

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