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Perl Getopt::Long - Error in option spec

I'm trying to run a script I wrote on a Linux Box on an AIX machine but it seems to error our, it works flawlessly on Linux and the syntaxt looks fine but when I run it on the aix box I get:

Error in option spec: "z|zcat|zip|compressed:s{2}"
Error in option spec: "t|text:s{2}"

Any help would be valued.

Cheers

#!/usr/bin/perl
use Getopt::Long;
 
$tmpfile = "/u/oper/ahawkes/tmp/\$USER.txt";
print "\n";
 
my ($help, @compressed, @text);
##### get options #####
 
usage() if ( ! GetOptions('help|?' => \$help, 'z|zcat|zip|compressed=s{2}' => \@compressed, 't|text:s{2}' => \@text, )
     or defined $help );
 
###---code continues---###

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what version of Getopt::Long do you have?
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Version is 2.34
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Try double quotes:

usage() if ( ! GetOptions("help|?" => \$help, "z|zcat|zip|compressed=s{2}" => \@compressed, "t|text:s{2}" => \@text, )
     or defined $help );
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Double quotes still comes up with an error in option spec
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If an upgrade of the AIX box is not an option can anyone think of an alternative way of achieving the desired result?
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You could iterate over the array looking to see if the option is valid using grep...