Re: support for built-in -opt style options for proc

et99 <et99@rocketship1.me> wrote:

On 6/25/2024 9:20 AM, Rich wrote:

et99 <et99@rocketship1.me> wrote:

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There is also, in tcllib, the 'cmdline' package:
 
https://core.tcl-lang.org/tcllib/doc/trunk/embedded/md/tcllib/files/modules/cmdline/cmdline.md
 
Which provides an options parser that is very similar (although not
100% identical) to the GNU C 'getopt' options parser.  And the man
page has an example.

 
It looks like a recipe for a unix command line, not so much a tcl command.

That is likely its intent, but one can use it to parse the "args" list
of a proc in the same way one can use it to parse the argv list of CLI
options.  Quite a few other tcllib modules use it for their "command
arguments" parsing (all of which are not unix cli commands, but various
Tcl procs).