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Re: Wisdom on the Getopt::Long module
by toolic (Bishop) on Jul 14, 2010 at 18:17 UTC
    I think this satisfies your requirements: 
    GetOptions('x:s'=>\$x);
$x = 0 unless $x;

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Re: Wisdom on the Getopt::Long module
by JavaFan (Canon) on Jul 14, 2010 at 22:16 UTC 
    GetOptions("x:s"=>\$x);
$x ||= defined $x;

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