in reply to Getopt::Std and simple options

Your code does not really match your output. Any way, < is redirect, and does not set -v.

use strict;
use Getopt::Std;

our $opt_v;
getopt('v');
print $opt_v;

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When you run it as perl -w blah.pl -v abc, it prints abc as expected.

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Re^2: Getopt::Std and simple options
by Dizzley (Novice) on Sep 06, 2005 at 05:44 UTC
    The redirect is intentional, I included it in the example call in case that was affecting the outcome.

    I am trying to set a verbose flag '-v' with no value; that's what I meant by "simple options". The real answer was to use getopts() rather than getopt(). The code matched the output: only the script name was changed to protect the innocent. :^)

    Thanks for helping anyway.

    ~Diz

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