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Old 06-30-2009
How to add optins/swithes to the perl script

Hi I had one script
myperl.pl

I want to improve that script by adding the swithces.
like following

when I type
Code:
myperl.pl -help

I nedd to get the usage of the script

How to add -help switch in the perl script

and, if I give
Code:
myperl.pl rpt1 rpt2

Defaultly it will take rpt1 and rpt2 as argumanets, But I want like this

myperl.pl -inputs rpt1 rpt2

How to add the -inputs switch in the perl script

Appreciate ur help

Last edited by Yogesh Sawant; 06-30-2009 at 04:49 AM.. Reason: added code tags
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Old 06-30-2009
Pls refer following links:

GetOptions - extended processing of command line options
Getopt::*

Hope this will resolve your problem.
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