Hi Monks,

What I'm trying to do is take one named option from the command line and run a subroutine based on that option and use the remaining named options in the subroutine. I cannot figure out how to get the options/variables in to the subroutine. For one thing I thought the scope of the variables in Main:: would allow the variable to be seen in side the subroutine. What I'd really rather do is pass them in to the subroutine because it seems better to me. Is that true? Not to mention the fact that it seems that I'm also making this way to hard.

use strict;
use warnings;
use Getopt::Long;

my $user;
my $password;

GetOptions(
    'fetch'         => \&fetch,
    'user=s'        => \$user,
    'password=s'    => \$password,
       ); 

sub fetch {
    my @vars = @_;
    print "We're now in fetch\n";
    print "The vars are @vars\n";
    print "The user is $user\n";
    print "The password is $password\n";
    routine1($user);
    }



sub routine1 {
    my @var = @_;
    print "We're now in routine1\n";
    print "The vars for routine1 @var\n";
    print "The user for routine1 is $user\n";
    }
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Which produces these errors:

./mygetopt5.pl -f -user user1 -pass password 
We're now in fetch
The vars are fetch 1
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at ./mygetop
+t5.pl line 22.
The user is 
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at ./mygetop
+t5.pl line 23.
The password is 
We're now in routine1
Use of uninitialized value in join or string at ./mygetopt5.pl line 32
+.
The vars for routine1 
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at ./mygetop
+t5.pl line 33.
The user for routine1 is
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Thank-you for your consideration.

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