I check for required flags like this: 

my @args;

GetOptions ( 'h|help' => sub { $help ++ },
             'debug' => sub { $debug ++ },
             'c|confirm' => \$confirm,
             'i|instance=s' => \$instance,
             's|service=s' => \@services,
             'o|operation=s' => \$operation,
             'm|message=s' => \$message,
             't|timeout=i' => \$timeout,
             'u|owner=s' => \$owner,
             '<>' => sub { push (@args, @_) }
           );

pod2usage ( -verbose => $help ) if $help;
pod2usage ( -verbose => 1 ) unless scalar @services;
pod2usage ( -verbose => 1 ) unless $operation and $message and $owner;

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It seems to me what you're trying to do is handled much more clearly by assigning a variable based on a flag, then checking that variable's value.

I find Pod::Usage http://perldoc.perl.org/Pod/Usage.html invaluable. And I always use Getopt::Long.

In reply to Re: How to use getopt and $#argv together? by mpeever
in thread How to use getopt and $#argv together? by iphone

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