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From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
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Subject: Re: support for built-in -opt style options for proc
Date: 25 Jun 2024 21:25:47 GMT
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In article <v5fc9o$1nlts$1@dont-email.me>, et99  <et99@rocketship1.me> wrote:
>On 6/25/2024 9:20 AM, Rich wrote:
>> et99 <et99@rocketship1.me> wrote:
>snip
>
>> 
>> There is also, in tcllib, the 'cmdline' package:
>> 
>>
>https://core.tcl-lang.org/tcllib/doc/trunk/embedded/md/tcllib/files/modules/cmdline/cmdline.md
>> 
>> Which provides an options parser that is very similar (although not
>> 100% identical) to the GNU C 'getopt' options parser.  And the man page
>> has an example.
>
>It looks like a recipe for a unix command line, not so much a tcl command.
>

Yes.  I recently put together a number of Tcl command line programs
using cmdline getopt into one Tcl program, keeping the parsing.

It looked... really weird.

(Love getopt for command line stuff though)
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