From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-02-18T04:24:54+09:00
Subject: Re: getoptlong, getopt, parseopt, which one to use for command line tool?

On Sat, 18 Feb 2006, Charlie Bowman wrote:

> There seems to be several options out there.  Which one should be used
> when creating command line tools?

it keeps things exciting to mix them up in unpredictable ways - preferably in
obfusicated code.

;-)

seriously - use getoptlong for simple stuff and optparse if your needs are
more elaborate.

the big limitation on getoptlong is that it eats ARGV only.  most times this
is fine.

regards.

-a

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