Mark Hensler — Sat, 17 May 2003 23:12:28 +0000

Good idea. I'll try when I have time. Thanks.

Wil — Sat, 17 May 2003 23:05:33 +0000

Hm, not sure as I haven't played with it. But my suggestion would be to write a quick hack that will 'quotify' your input before passing it onto Getopt::Long. I know it's a workaround but it could work?

Mark Hensler — Sat, 17 May 2003 17:23:26 +0000

hmm..

I played with it a bit more, but I'm probably missing a configuration option.

use Getopt::Long;
Getopt::Long::Configure('auto_abbrev', 'bundling_override');

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If I have any extra characters in the options, I get an error:

/bang -evg "fortune"
Unknown option: g "fortune"

Not a bad thing.

But if I have my command without being in quotes, I get the same error:

/bang -pv fortune
Unknown option: fortune

Now that I dont like. Is there anyway I can allow my commands to be without quotes?

Wil — Sat, 17 May 2003 11:22:19 +0000

What problems are you having with Getopt::long? It's a pretty sound module with a big user base, shouldn't think that there are many bugs left in it. What vrsion you running?