Processes single-character, command-line options with option clustering. Exports two functions, which analyze @ARGV, extract information about the options, and return this information to your program in a set of variables. Processing of @ARGV stops when an argument without a leading - is encountered, if that argument is not associated with a preceding option. Otherwise, @ARGV is processed to the end and left empty.
| getopt |
switches is a string of the command-line options that take arguments. For each option, getopt sets $opt_x (in which x is the switch) to the value entered as an argument. If \%optsis specified, it is a reference to a hash in which getopt sets the key to the name of the switch and the value to the argument (and the $opt_ variables are not set).
| getopts |
Like getopt, except that all valid options are included in switches, and options that take an argument are followed by a colon (:). For example:
getopt('oDI') # -o, -D, & -I take arguments; there may # be other options getopts('o:DI') # -o, -D, and -I are the only valid # options; only -o takes an argument
\%opts means the same as with getopt.
| 8.117. Getopt::Long | 8.119. Hash::Util |
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