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From: Wayne <wayne@nospam.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Useless Use Of Regexes
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 23:54:51 -0400
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On 3/27/2025 5:05 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 16:51:16 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> 
>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 07:58:32 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
>>>
>>>> You could have it easier with getopt ...
>>>
>>> Last I checked, getopt doesn’t do long options.
>>
>> You should check again.
> 
> ldo@theon:~> help getopt
> getopts: getopts optstring name [arg ...]
>      Parse option arguments.
> ...

Note that getopt is different from getopts!

-- 
Wayne