7/7     Is there an easy way in Perl to parse command-line arguments like:
        -opt1 val1 -opt2 val2?
        \_ Getopt::Std module
           \_ Ah, thank you--both for the useful answer and the quick reply.
           \_ Specifically, look at the getopts() function in there.
        \_ How about in Python?
           \_ python has a standard getopt too. stfw.