Space in getopt option value

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Re: Space in getopt option value by toolic (Bishop) on Aug 01, 2012 at 18:32 UTC
Here is one way: `use warnings; use strict; use Getopt::Long; use Data::Dumper; $Data::Dumper::Sortkeys=1; my %opt; GetOptions(\%opt, 'foo=s') or die; print Dumper(\%opt); __END__ myhack.pl --foo 'bar1 bar2 bar3' $VAR1 = { 'foo' => 'bar1 bar2 bar3' };` [download] The you can process `$opt{foo}` if you wish.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Space in getopt option value by frozenwithjoy (Priest) on Aug 01, 2012 at 18:53 UTC
Are you passing multiple values to the `--foo` argument or one string value with spaces? If the former, you can use something like this: `myhack.pl --foo bar1 --foo bar2 --foo bar3` [download] Be sure to change `GetOptions ("foo=s" => \$foo);` to `GetOptions ("foo=s" => \@foo);` see: Options with multiple values	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Space in getopt option value by Anonymous Monk on Aug 01, 2012 at 21:47 UTC
I seek to find a way for getopt to accept a option value with spaces, e.g. What operating system and or shell are you using? Getopt parses from @ARGV, and how @ARGV gets populated depends on your shell On windows cmd.exe `$ perl -MData::Dump -e " dd\@ARGV " -- --foo='bar1 bar2 bar3' ["--foo='bar1", "bar2", "bar3'"]` [download] This is correct, as ' is not a quoting character on cmd.exe -- you have to quote according to your shell -- more on this in perlrun, Behind the GUI lives the Shell and How Command Line Parameters Are Parsed	[reply] [d/l]