in reply to Need help using Getopt, please.

One thing you can do is supply alternate names for options, e.g.:
GetOptions ( "help|h" => \$help, "read|r" => \$read, "generate|g" => \$generate, );

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Re^2: Need help using Getopt, please.
by Seventh (Beadle) on Jan 21, 2005 at 16:45 UTC
    That did it. Thanks very much!