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options is a small and simple library for parsing commandline options

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Stig Brautaset

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options is a small and simple library for parsing commandline options. It is not intended to rival popt or the like, so if you need really fancy option parsing `options' is not for you.

Installation:

./configure
make install

Here are some key features of "options":
long and short options
options that take no argument are `counters' by default; these start from zero and are incremented each time they're specified
default values for all types of options
interpret option values as integer or string, or both
print table of options and help messages (with default values)

Requirements:
sl