Talk:Parse command-line arguments

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Reasons for this article:

  • Getopt documentation is often too sparse to be useful
  • Different languages have different pattern syntax (think C's "a:b:cd" getopt syntax)
  • As with ScriptedMain, this behavior is as useful as it is obscure.
  • getopt is not Google-friendly: the results tend to be C programs embedding the language in question.

The phone call example is just a quick example. I think we should define a more useful CLI example for each language.

pmath: Perform mathematical operations.

Examples:

Usage

./pmath.rb -h

Fibonacci

./pmath.rb --fib 100

e raised to a power

./pmath.rb -e 2

--User:Mcandre