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From: "James S. Rogers" <jimmaureenrogers@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Re: GETARG in Ada?
Date: 1999/02/28
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bill@cool wrote in message <7ba3n9$kbr@drn.newsguy.com>...
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>it should be possible to call the Unix getopt() function from Ada. why
>not do this? getopt is designed to break command line arguments
>easily.


This is useful if you are parsing options such as "-f File_Name".
It is, of course, only useful if you are using UNIX-like operating systems.

For simple command line arguments without accompanying arguments,
or when not using UNIX, the Ada.Command_Line package is simpler.
It is the only reasonably portable answer.

Some operating systems do not support command line arguments.  The
LRM states that Ada.Command_Line is not supported on those operating
systems.

Jim Rogers
Colorado Springs, Colorado