Hi,

I was trying to read the file name & processid using the Getopt.

#!/tools/opt/bin/perl -w
use Getopt::Std;
$iPid = 0;
$sFile="";
$Getopt::Std::opt_f = "";
$Getopt::Std::opt_p = 0;
getopts('f:p');
if($Getopt::Std::opt_f) {$sFile= $Getopt::Std::opt_f;}
if($Getopt::Std::opt_p) {$iPid = $Getopt::Std::opt_p;}
print "\n sFile--> $sFile";
print "\n iPID-->$iPid\n";

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I will get $sFile as the inputfilename that I give. But why the $iPid will be 1 always when I run the perl script as: 
perl <perlfilename> -f <inputfilename> -p <ProcessID>

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Can I give the options -f -p in any order? If there are many options also will the order matters? Help me..

Then if I want to read the PID which I provide as an numeric argument along with -p option , the code should be changed as?

In reply to Getopt in perl by vish

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