Hello, I am using Getopt::Long to process command line arguments. For a string option, I would like to call a function and then process that value. I'm not sure how the value itself is captured for use in the function. Here's a simple example:

use strict;
use Getopt::Long;

my $result = GetOptions (
          "c=s" => \&COMPTO,
          '<>' => sub {print "\nThat is not a valid parameter\n";},
    );

sub COMPTO {print "\nGenerate Output for <some string> \n";}

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In the example above, I run "program.pl -c <some string>", and I would to capture the string "<some string>" so I can use that value in the function COMPTO that is called. The Getopts::Long documentation implies you can do this, but I'm not sure of the syntax. Thank you.

In reply to Processing arguments with Getopt::Long by MKJ747

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