Hello,

My question might be a bit stupid but it would be nice if i could get it to work.

I have a command line option, say -x. In the GetOptions() function i have declared it as GetOptions('x:s'=>\$x);

Incase the -x option is given with a string, $x gets that value.

Incase the -x option is given with no string , $x becomes 0.

Is there anyway for me to acheive both, handle the case where if some value is passed $x contains that string and if no value is passed, $x remains true. ie not 0.

for eg 

perl someprogram.pl -x "hello" 
// $x becomes "hello"

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perl someprogram.pl -x         
// $x becomes 0, but i want  it to be set to true, since the option wa
+s entered on command line.

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It is a stupid question, but i want to be able to use the same variable, to do differnt things.

Is this even possible? :O

Thanks!

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