Use getopt for simple stuff or commandline if your needs are more
elaborate.

Dan
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From: ara.t.howard@noaa.gov [mailto:ara.t.howard@noaa.gov]
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 12:25 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: getoptlong, getopt, parseopt, which one to use
for command linetool?
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006, Charlie Bowman wrote:
> There seems to be several options out there. Which one
should be used
> when creating command line tools?
it keeps things exciting to mix them up in unpredictable ways
- preferably in obfusicated code.

seriously - use getoptlong for simple stuff and optparse if
your needs are more elaborate.
I'm not sure what you mean. I know what getopt is but what do you mean
by use commandline?
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On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 04:38 +0900, Berger, Daniel wrote:
Use getopt for simple stuff or commandline if your needs are more
elaborate.

Dan
commandline is in RubyForge. See http://rubyforge.org/projects/optionparser/\.
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On 2/17/06, Charlie Bowman <charlie@castlebranch.com> wrote:
I'm not sure what you mean. I know what getopt is but what do you mean
by use commandline?
On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 04:38 +0900, Berger, Daniel wrote:
> Use getopt for simple stuff or commandline if your needs are more
> elaborate.
>
> 
>
> Dan
>
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