Perl Command Line Option

A Perl Command Line Option is a Command Line Input to a Perl program.

• Context:
  • It can be processed by a Perl Command Line Processor.
• See: Command-line Interface.

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References

2013

my $inputFile = shift @ARGV ;
$inputFile = "$mwTermsFileDefault" if (not defined $inputFile ) ; 
my $outputFile = shift @ARGV ;
$outputFile = "$outFileDefault" if (not defined $outputFile ) ; 

use Getopt::Long ;
die "ERROR in parameter processing.\n" if not GetOptions (
   'inFile:s'   => \$inputFile,
   'outFile:s'  => \$outputFile,
...
   'help'        => \$help,
) ;

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