Hi all, so I need to implement a script that somebody else wrote, but I can't figure out what they're doing with getopts.pl. Here's what's confusing me:

&Getopts('afg:s:n:vb:cd');

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What does this mean? I tried to read about it and found something about ':' separating options that expect arguments or not, but the info I found wasn't very detailed. I can tell from the code which variables are which, but I would like to understand this line, and if it affects how I should call the script. Thanks in advance :)

EDIT: Okay, so I read Getopt::Std as suggested. I didn't realize the colon applied only to the letter before it, I thought they separated groups or something weird... This makes sense, however in the script they are assigning a variable to $opt_f, but isn't that option supposed to be a Boolean?

In reply to getopts help by limzz

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