Re: [Omaha.pm] bad perl - need help - dispatch table

[Mike Hostetler <hostetlerm@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 09:43:02 -0500, Terry <td3201@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a very ugly script that simply reads in a file, parses and
> outputs HTML formatted text.  See my kludge at the end of the email.
> 
> The program is invoked as ./program $option  where $option can be a
> number of different things.  For this example I will say $option =
> asdf.    I am almost embarrassed to post this code cuz I suck so bad
> at this....but that's life.
>

Take a look at using Getopt or Getopt::Long.  They should be standard
with your Perl, and they make life easier.  Do a "perldoc Getopt" for
more info.  A decent page for it is at:

http://www.aplawrence.com/Unix/perlgetopts.html
 


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Mike Hostetler
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