Why not just parse some comma separation on your own, after the fact?

example: $0 -dealer A875 -suppliers CM,CX -suppliers CD,CZ,CA -min TES
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@suppliers = split(/,/, join(',', @suppliers));
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This exact solution is in the perldoc for Getopt::Long which I see on my machine, when discussing \@foo arrays.