I'm writing a script to act as a ssh wrapper and I want to have to option of using a config file when offered the command line argument of "--config". According ot the perldoc documentation, using "config" => /$config should set $config to 0, initializing it. Unfortunately, it seems to not get the value assigned to it.

this is the output of the program 

./strew.pl --help
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at ./strew.p
+l line 65.
config: ""

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Below is code from where I'm dealing w/ command line args. 

use Getopt::Long;
use Config::Auto;
#use Data::Dumper;

my @servers         = ();
my @commands     = ();
my @files         = ();
my $user         = $ENV{USER};
my $file             = ();
my $dest         = ();
my $help         = ();
my $config        = () ;
GetOptions ("user=s" => \$user, "server=s" => \@servers, "command=s" =
+> \@commands, "file=s" =>\$file, "dest=s"=> \$dest, "config" => \$con
+fig, "help" => \$help);

print "config: \"$config\"\n";

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Thanks!!,
Nick

In reply to Problem with GetOpts::Long by niku

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