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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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