Since I had to go and clean up my old friend, because I actually had to do it - and since I have frumped about
did you put in the '--help|-h|-?' thing for making sure that people have their gnu style help I thought I should show one of several ways to do this. http://www.wetware.com/drieux/pbl/perlTrick/CommandLine/do_get_opt_long.txt This was derived from a form we had been using as a sorta stock way to spin up bunches of command line options with Getopt::Long - http://www.wetware.com/drieux/pbl/perlTrick/CommandLine/simple_get_long.txt I just always promised myself that when I had the time I was gonna clean all of that up and stash it in a function that would be easier to maintain - as I cut and pasted it around the world... Oh if ONLY this were do-able as a 'module' thing that one could have the full on 'just generic' - but.... ciao drieux --- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]