How can I allow undefined options when parsing args with Getopt
- by Ross Rogers
If I have a command line like:
my_script.pl -foo -WHATEVER
My script knows about --foo, and I want Getopt to set variable $opt_foo, but I don't know anything about -WHATEVER. How can I tell Getopt to parse out the options that I've told it about, and then get the rest of the arguments in a string variable or a list.
An example:
use strict;
use warnings;
use Getopt::Long;
my $foo;
GetOptions('foo' => \$foo);
print 'remaining options: ', @ARGV;
Then, issuing
perl getopttest.pl -foo -WHATEVER
gives
Unknown option: whatever
remaining options:
