in reply to Re^2: trouble acessing array result from GetOptions
in thread trouble acessing array result from GetOptions

One tip that may help you in similar situations in the future. Whenever you find yourself printing a stringified reference when you expected something else, it's helpful to use Data::Dumper;, and to dump the variable in question into Dumper to see what you get. For example, if you added print Dumper \%options; to your script, you would get a good look at the data structure, and that could help you figure out how to find within it the data you're trying to retrieve.

Data::Dumper is a great "I wonder what this structure looks like" tool.


Dave