Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2010 00:07:38 -0400 From: Greg Larkin <glarkin@FreeBSD.org> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: perl qstn... Message-ID: <4BB8108A.9080104@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20100403210610.GA4135@thought.org> References: <20100403210610.GA4135@thought.org>
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Gary Kline wrote:
> guys,
>
> i'm finally trying to get my private scripts and binaries in
> ~/bin in order. several of my perl scripts were meant to be
> throwaway ... but a few seem to be more useful and i would have
> to have informational or usage{} type messages.
>
> if a .pl script has to have at least one arg, is there an easy
> way to do that? can i have a perl fn called usage() that would
> be fed various strings?
>
> tia,
>
> gary
>
>
>
Hi Gary,
Check out this Perl module that builds on Getopt::Long, but also
includes support for echoing usage messages for each option:
http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/Getopt-Long-Descriptive-0.085/lib/Getopt/Long/Descriptive.pm
Hope that helps,
Greg
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