Greetings again good monks,

I have the sinking feeling that this is going to be a silly newbie question, but I have gone hunting thru the perldocs and supersearch and I can't find a ready answer, so here goes...

I spent a good chunk of today writing a program for an online class and now I have run into a silly little gremlin. I want to give the user the option of calling a striphtml subroutine, but for some reason when I input this:

myusername$: perl myprogram.pl --striphtml someuserinput
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My program runs the main subroutine and not the striphtml subroutine. But if I delete main(), then that same command line input runs fine.

Basically all, I want is to have sub main to run if there are no Getopt::Long arguments and conversely, only have sub striphtml run when the user specifies that option.

This is the basic layout of the program

#!/opt/bin/perl -w
#
#
use strict;
use Getopt::Long qw(GetOptions);
use Pod::Usage qw(pod2usage);

my $vars;
my @morevars;

GetOptions("striphtml" => sub { striphtml() });

main();
exit();

sub main{...}
sub striphtml{...}
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Thank you for your time and help

-mox