using getopt()

[Caroline Allen]

Hi, my name is Caroline Allen, and I'm a fairly long-time C programmer, predominantly in the field of visual effects (you know, like, hacking for movies). I have recently started using Perl, and I think it's _great_, though getting up to speed with it is a bit like when I started learning Spanish long after being fluent in French -- Perl has so many similarities to C and <n>shell that I trip over the differences. Things only get more confused because I'm also a Lisp programmer, and a lot of the dynamic/lexical scoping issues are very familiar to me, not to mention the automatic memory management. Oh gosh, then there's Basic and its own way of string handling (I was doing a lot of work in VB). As one of my clients, Daffy Duck, would say, "Mother!"

I would really like to be using "getopt," and I'm failing. I can't submit examples of my code to this list, for facility security reasons, but if anyone could post some sample code using "getopt", or direct me _to_ some sample code, that would be great. I browsed CPAN but didn't find anything to the purpose, and I get the feeling that The Camel book doesn't really address this very much, at least as far as I can find. I would like to be using "getopt" because it models the behavior my client base is accustomed to, i.e. switch-based, non-positional arguments on the UNIX command line.

I can't help wondering: does the Perl community have the same distaste for non-positional arguments as the Lisp community seems to have?

Thanks in advance,
Working on a Friday night, waiting for the hellish traffic to subside,
Caro


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