in reply to Options syntax help

Well, there are many ways to deal with commandline options in Perl. Three of them are:
  1. Use the -s switch on your #! line (see perlrun)
  2. Use the standard Getopt::Std module.
  3. Use the standard Getopt::Long module.
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