Balvinder writes..
>I have a perl script which excepts command line parameters. I am using
>getopt function to get the parameters and even if I pass all the
>required parameters, the script exits out on the below statement
>
>if (!getopt('U:D:S:F:M:Hh')) {
> die "*** ERROR *** \n $USAGE \n\n";
>}
>
>
>I there anything wrong I'm doing in the above piece of code?? All I
>want to do is make sure that the required parameters are passed to the
>script. the -M is an optional parameter. I tried removing the : after
>the M in the above if statement and that did not changed the behavior.
>Any pointers as what am I doing wrong??
This is not documented, but looking at the Getopt::Std.pm code you can see
that Getopt::Std::getopt() does not return anything useful. However,
Getopt::Std::getopts() does, it returns whether there were any errors or
not. In fact that's the main difference between the two functions.
--
Jason King
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