[Chicago-talk] alternatives to Getopt::Long

[Steven Lembark]

-- Jim Thomason <jthomasoniii at yahoo.com>

>>    --foo a b c --bar 1 2 3
>
> You could always roll your own.
>
> Look, here's a fancy (and inefficient) oneliner to
> stick 'em into a hash:
>
> my %args = map {/--\w+/ ? $_ : [grep {/\S/} split /
> /]} grep {length} split(/(--\w+)/, join(' ', @ARGV));

How would you want to handle mixed types or cases where
a lone '-' ends the switches (e.g., grep)?

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