Though Getopt::<etc> is a better idea, the old:

use strict;
my ($name, $last, $arg);
while ($_ = shift ) {
 last unless   /^-\w/;
 print "arg $_\n";
 if ( /-n/ ) {
   $name = shift;
 }
 if ( /-l/ ) {
   $last = shift;
 }
 next if /-n|-l/;
 die "bad arg: $_";
}
print "name $name, last $last\n";
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er, or something like that. Its in the camel book though.

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