On Mon Dec 01 2008 @ 7:13, blake askew wrote:
> Thanks for the help John. I have made the changes you suggested and managed
> to get everything working properly. One more question though that is
> completely different, how do I allow users to specify switches on the
> command line in any order to be used in my program. For example, I want the
> syntax to be ./ipcheck.pl <ip> <port> {options specified in any order}. I
> know I can get the value for the ip using $ip=$ARGV[0] and port using
> $port=$ARGV[1] but how would I get the remaining options?
>
> Example to help clarify: ./ipcheck 10.10.10.1 80 -n -a -r
> where -n -a -r are options in no particular order, 10.10.10.1 is the ip and
> 80 is the port.
Check out Getopt::Long. It's a core module (that is, it's available with
Perl itself - you don't need to install anything extra).
perldoc Getopt::Long
Hope this helps, T
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