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79072805 1;# $RCSfile: getopt.pl,v $$Revision: 4.1 $$Date: 92/08/07 18:23:58 $
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2#
3# This library is no longer being maintained, and is included for backward
4# compatibility with Perl 4 programs which may require it.
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5# This legacy library is deprecated and will be removed in a future
6# release of perl.
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7#
8# In particular, this should not be used as an example of modern Perl
9# programming techniques.
10#
11# Suggested alternatives: Getopt::Long or Getopt::Std
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12
13warn( "The 'getopt.pl' legacy library is deprecated and will be"
14 . " removed in the next major release of perl. Please use the"
15 . " Getopt::Long or Getopt::Std modules instead." );
16
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17;# Process single-character switches with switch clustering. Pass one argument
18;# which is a string containing all switches that take an argument. For each
19;# switch found, sets $opt_x (where x is the switch name) to the value of the
20;# argument, or 1 if no argument. Switches which take an argument don't care
21;# whether there is a space between the switch and the argument.
22
23;# Usage:
24;# do Getopt('oDI'); # -o, -D & -I take arg. Sets opt_* as a side effect.
25
26sub Getopt {
27 local($argumentative) = @_;
28 local($_,$first,$rest);
ac58e20f 29 local($[) = 0;
378cc40b 30
55204971 31 while (@ARGV && ($_ = $ARGV[0]) =~ /^-(.)(.*)/) {
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32 ($first,$rest) = ($1,$2);
33 if (index($argumentative,$first) >= $[) {
34 if ($rest ne '') {
a687059c 35 shift(@ARGV);
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36 }
37 else {
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38 shift(@ARGV);
39 $rest = shift(@ARGV);
378cc40b 40 }
29d4204f 41 ${"opt_$first"} = $rest;
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42 }
43 else {
29d4204f 44 ${"opt_$first"} = 1;
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45 if ($rest ne '') {
46 $ARGV[0] = "-$rest";
47 }
48 else {
a687059c 49 shift(@ARGV);
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50 }
51 }
52 }
53}
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54
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