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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Useless Use Of Regexes
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 23:50:43 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 26 Mar 2025 21:43:51 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>On Wed, 26 Mar 2025 08:21:42 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
>>> It has become better since I usually start off with ChatGPT which
>>> takes care of the boilerplate stuff.
>>
>>The main point of using a very-high-level language (like bash) is that
>>you shouldn’t need any boilerplate stuff.
> 
> As soon as you make it flexlbie, with command line options, you begin
> typing getopt or GetOptions stuff and that's pretty much boilerplate.

Well, I do do that. Mainly it’s just a loop, though, e.g.

    for ((;;)); do
        if [ "${1:0:2}" != "--" ]; then
            break
        fi
        if [ "$1" == "--" ]; then
            shift
            break
        fi
        opt="${1:2:${#1}}"
        shift
        val="${opt#*=}"
        if [ "$val" = "$opt" ]; then
            val=""
        fi
        opt="${opt%%=*}"
        if [ "$opt" = "animation" ]; then
            animation=1
        elif [ "$opt" = "blender" ]; then
            blender="$val"
        elif [ "$opt" = "camera" ]; then
            camera="$val"
        elif [ "$opt" = "collections" ]; then
            collections="$val"
        elif [ "$opt" = "crash-protect" ]; then
            crash_protect=1
        elif [ "$opt" = "crash-retry-count" ]; then
            crash_retry_count="$val"
        elif [ "$opt" = "digits" ]; then
            digits="$val"
        ...
        else
            opterror "bad option $opt"
        fi
    done

I would say, only a few lines in there count as “boilerplate” ...