Re: [help-gengetopt] FEATURE request: getopt_longonly?

[Lorenzo Bettini]

Gyozo, PAPP (VBuster) wrote:
> " Gyozo, PAPP (VBuster) wrote:
> " > Hi,
> " > 
> " > what about to add the choice if getopt_long() or 
> " getopt_longonly() be used in the generated source depending 
> " on a command line switch?
> " > I'll come up with a little patch if I have some time to test it.
> " > 
> " 
> " uh!  I know it's a shame, but I didn't even know about 
> " getopt_longonly! :-)
> " 
> " does it accept only long options?
>
> Not really, it also accepts short options, but it "prefers" long ones in a way 
> that '-' as well as '--' __can__ introduce
> long-named options. It checks first if the commandline argument starts with a 
> long option or its unique abbrevation, if the first alphanumeric character does 
> not match any of the short option characters.

Uh!  EVEN BETTER! :-)

if you come up with a patch please let me know asap :-)

thanks
Lorenzo

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