getopt & single-letter options with parameters

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 08/08/2010 02:37 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 08/08/2010 12:17 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> "Andrei Alexandrescu"<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote in message
>> news:i3kpsi$rod$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>>
>>> ./prog -ofilename
>>
>> That being allowed at all kind of bugs me. I realize this probably
>> isn't a
>> particularly common problem in practice, but suppose you have:
>>
>> -o<filename>
>> -of
>>
>> And the user uses "-o" with a file named "f":
>>
>> theapp -of // Do what now?
>>
>> Or,
>>
>> -o<filename>
>> -of<filename>
>>
>> theapp -ofabc // "-o fabc" or "-of abc"?
>>
>> The whole possibility kinda makes me nervous.
>
> Short options with parameters don't accept bundling, so the problem
> never shows itself.
>
> Andrei

Actually I stand corrected. The tar program does use bundled parameters...

Andrei