C:\My\Work\Perl\getopt>getopt-01.pl -a -b Test C:/Perl/site/lib C:/Perl/lib . $VAR1 = []; end of perl C:\My\Work\Perl\getopt>/perl/bin/perl getopt-01.pl -a -b Test C:/Perl/site/lib C:/Perl/lib . $VAR1 = [ '-a', '-b', 'Test' ]; a exists b = Test end of perl