Hey Monks, I would like to write a subroutine to look for command-line arguments such as -help, -h, and --help. I wanna call my subrutine from a main program and the thing is: if I give the program any of the named command-line arguments, when you pass them into the subroutine it should return a true value. If this is the case, the program should print out a help message in a $USAGE variable and exit. My try is: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

$check = mycheck($#ARGV);

if ($check != 1) {
    $usage = "Help arguments have been found";
    print $usage, "\n";
}


sub mycheck {
my($#ARGV) = @_; 
    $return = 0; #Variable RETURN set as false (set as 0)
    foreach $arg (0 .. $#ARGV) {
        if (($arg eq '-help') || ($arg eq '-h') || ($arg eq '--help'))
+ {
        $return = 1; #Variable return now is true
        exit;
        } else {
        print "No help arguments found\n";
        }
    }
return $return
}

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But it looks like not working and I cannot find the reason. Any ideas? when I run it it returns "syntax error at ex4HW01.pl line 13, near "0;" THANKS!

In reply to ARGV issue by carbonettis

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