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From: Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us>
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Subject: Re: Useless Use Of Regexes
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 07:58:32 +0100
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>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” ...

All of them. You could have it easier with getopt, but oh my.

Greetings
Marc
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