added command line option to specify starting block

README.md

@@ -1,17 +1,15 @@
 # ShieldedOutputs
 
-Counts shielded outputs in hush v3 blocks
+Counts shielded outputs in Hush v3 blocks
 
-Forked from [ChileBob](https://github.com/ChileBob/ShieldedOutputs) who works on ycash
+Originally forked from [ChileBob](https://github.com/ChileBob/ShieldedOutputs) who works on ycash
 
 ## How to use
 
-1. Make sure your hush daemon (hushd) is running.
-1. Open getstats in a text editor.
-1. change "my $block_height = 699000" to what block number you want to begin at.
-1. Run this with `perl getstats` and watch how many shielded outputs occured in each block in sequence.
+1. Make sure your Hush daemon (hushd) is running.
+1. Run this with `perl getstats` and watch how many shielded outputs occured in each block in sequence as of the default block variable 699000 in code.
+1. If you want to specify a certain block, for example startin at block 700,000 then run `perl getstats --block 700000` and watch it go!
 
 ## License
 
 GPLv3
-

getstats

@@ -5,18 +5,28 @@
 # forked from https://github.com/ChileBob/ShieldedOutputs
 # Copyright (c) 2021 ChileBob under MIT License
 #
-
 package common;
 
-use Data::Dumper;
-use JSON;
 use strict;
 use warnings;
+use Data::Dumper;
+use JSON;
+#use Getopt::Long;
+use Getopt::Long;
 
 my $node_client = 'hush-cli';	# hush-cli client
+my $block_height = 699000;		# start block unless changed with --block
+my $version = "0.1";
+my $print_version;
+
+# Command line options
+GetOptions ("block=i" => \$block_height,
+			"version" => \$print_version);
 
-#my $block_height = 570000;		# start block
-my $block_height = 699000;		# changed start block
+if($print_version) {
+	print "ShieldedOutputs - Hush Remix Version $version\n";
+	exit();
+}
 
 my $blockchaininfo = node_cli('getblockchaininfo');