I may just be frain bried but...

I have a script that is meant to manage a number of other executables and I am trying to get an array of the arguments. So a command like: 

getStuff configs --force=all --out out.txt -v -a

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should end up with an args array equivalent to 
@args = (
     "configs",
     "--force=all",
     "--out out.txt",
     "-v",
     "-a");

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I can do it with a split /(-+)/ and  for ($i = 0; $i < $#args; $i++) type of thing. I look for -- and piece the pairs back together. But who wants to do that? Not only do I suspect there's another way to do it, I'll bet there's a better way to do it.
Any suggestions?

Thanks for your help! Ira

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In reply to splitting command-line arguments by IraTarball

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