Hi Monks,

My current script looks something like this:

if ($ARGV[0] eq "-H"){ 
    print "Help goes here\n"; 
    } elsif ( $ARGV[0] eq "-L") { 
    print "List of things here\n"; 
    } elsif ( $ARGV[0] eq "-Action") { 
        my $parameter1 = $ARGV[1];
        my $parameter2 = $ARGV[2];
    print "Rest of program here\n";}
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but I want to add things like example 4, and maybe 5 :

Example 1 bash$ ./scriptname.pl action_1 # this already works
or
Example 2 bash$ ./scriptname.pl action_2 # this already works
or
Example 3 bash$ ./scriptname.pl action_3 parameter1 parameter2 # this already works
or
Example 4 bash$ ./scriptname.pl action_4 parameter1 parameter2
or
Example 5 bash$ ./scriptname.pl action_N parameter1 parameter2
.
.
.
The script started out with a single purpose and it flows well enough. I set it up with as many subroutines as possible and I just run down the script calling subroutines where I can until I get to the end. Now that I want to add more functionality where additional actions will be determined on the command line I'm not sure how to do it. I only want to do one action at a time but am not sure how to organize the script.

I have 3 ideas:

• 1. Make a large subroutine for each action_N and then just calling the individual smaller subroutines inside action_N subroutine. I prefer this option as I think it'll be easier for me to keep track of after I've forgotten what I've done in a few years.
• 2. Make each action_N a module.
• 3. Create separate scripts for each action_N.

Thank-you for any insight.

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