Re: Can't get my command line option via GetOpt::Long

Well, I'll be jiggered. Flaw in the example I used....

Thanks, Paul.

Eric

--- In perl-beginner@yahoogroups.com, Paul Archer
<tigger...> wrote:
>
> 8:32pm, Eric Roellig wrote:
> 
> > $ cat colors.pl
> > #!/usr/bin/perl  -W
> >
> Don't forget 'use strict;'
> 
> > {
> > # import module
> > #include <getopt_long.h>;
> > use Getopt::Long;
> >
> > my $result=0;
> > my $red = '';
> > my $blue = '';
> > my $green = '';
> >
> > print (" Argument is: $ARGV[0]n");
> >
> >
> > # read options
> > $result = GetOptions (  "red!" =>
$red,
> >                        "blue" =>
$blue,
> >                        "green" =>
$green );
> >
> 
> You're pretty close. But you need to pass a reference
to the 
variable, not 
> the content of the variable:
> 
> "blue" => $blue,
> 
> 
> Paul
>




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