Hello, I'm working with a program that uses GetOptions to process command line options.I have the following command line: dowhatever -channel 1 -forever -channel 2 -minutes 10 -hours 20 -channel 3 -forever And my code: 
  my ( @channel, @minutes, @hours, @forever);
 GetOptions(  " channel:s" => \@channel,
           "minutes:s" => \@minutes,
           "hours:s" => \@hours,
             "forever:s" => \@forever);
for ( my $i=0; $i<=$#channel; $i++)
    {
    print "Channel number $channel[$i] forever $forever[$i] minutes $m
+inutes[$i] hours $hours[$i] \n";
    }

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For a channel there can be 2 situations : forever or minutes and hours (in the same command line).My problem is that I don't know how to store for each channel it's corresponding situation. For eg. for the upper case I shall have: Channel number 1 forever 1 minutes 0 hours 0 Channel number 2 forever 0 minutes 10 hours 20 Channel number 3 forever 1 minutes 0 hours 0 Or is it possible to do something like this? Thank you very much, bory

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