Hi Monk,
In my program, I am using the module Getopt::Long My intension is that if the user chooses "--help", the program should show the help message without bothering whether other options has been used or not. My program (say, test.pl) : 

 
use Getopt::Long
my $abc;
my $help;
 
GetOptions ( "abc=s" => \$abc,
                   "help" => \$help
                 );
 
if ($help) { print "This is help message\n" ; exit ;}
 
if ($abc) { print "You have choosen \"abc\" as $abc" };

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If I run this:
1. test.pl -help
Output: This is help message

2. test.pl -abc ABC
Output : You have choosen abc as ABC

3. test.pl -abc -help
Output: You have choosen abc as -help

Out of the above results 1 & 2 are fine, but 3 is not as I want. I understand what's happening here $abc is assigned as "-help", but don't have idea how to implement it properly so that in the 3rd it would print like " This is help message" .

Can anybody help please ?
Thanks and regards

In reply to Help required on Getopt::Long by ghosh123

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