Excellent, all I was missing was the tab. My problem now is; I have added an exclude stmt to a section, and I want Getopt::Declare to die if the exclude fails, for example
my $args = new Getopt::Declare <<'EOPARAM';

    [strict]
    -e <env>        Collect data for systems in one env (can be used w
+ith -t)
                    
    -t <type>        Collect data for one type of system (can be used 
+with -e)
                    
    -s <systemname>    Collect data for one system  [excludes: -e -t]
    
    --
    
EOPARAM

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the -s option cannot be used with either -e or -t, and I want the command line parser to cause the program to die gracefully when this happens. Right now, the parser spits out an error ("you cant use -s with -(e|t)") and then program execution continues.

In reply to Re^2: Getopt::Declare not working by cprice
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