Here's a similar way, but instead of using the experimental switch, I use a dispatch table. Note this destroys @ARGV in the process and definitely is only an example and shouldn't be used in production code without much more work.

use warnings;
use strict;

my ($file, $thing);

my %arg_table = (
    -f      => sub { $file = shift; },
    -t      => sub { $thing = shift; },
    default => sub { die "bad param"; }, 
);

while (my @args = splice @ARGV, 0, 2){
    if (defined $arg_table{$args[0]}){
        $arg_table{$args[0]}->($args[1]);
    }
    else {
        $arg_table{default}->();
    }
}

print $file if defined $file;
print $thing if defined $thing;

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In reply to Re^2: GetOpts not working: by stevieb
in thread GetOpts not working: by finfan

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