Hi

I ran your code with the permute option and it worked for me. Can you post your command line call?

use Getopt::Long;

Getopt::Long::Configure("permute");

my $export = 0;
my $exportfile = "";

GetOptions(
    "convert"       => \$convert,
    "export"        => \$export,
    "exportfile=s"  => \$exportfile,
    "<>"            => \&badarg,
);

sub badarg
{
    my $badparm = $_[0];
    print"badarg $badparm\n";
}
__DATA__
>get_opt.pl --convert --export --exportfile temp.txt blah blah
badarg blah
badarg blah
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this was under both AS 5.6.1 and 5.8.4

- j