Re: getopt

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 4:28 AM, Juergen Rose <address@hidden> wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 10.10.2009, 12:12 -0400 schrieb John W. Eaton:
>> On 10-Oct-2009, Ben Abbott wrote:
>>
>> | > If I try to write a function my_getopt, the testing of the options is
>> | > probably not so hard. But how I can reset argv, that it after the call
>> | > the call of my_getopt contains only the non option arguments, I have
>> | > no
>> | > idea.
>> | > Juergen
>> |
>> | I have no good idea how to handle that problem.
>>
>> You would need to do something like
>>
>>   [opt_struct, remaining_args] = getopt (opt_string, varargin);
>>
>> then proceed with processing the returned options structure and the
>> remaining arguments.
>>
>> jwe
>
> Hi John,
> thank you for the answer. I did not expect that something like getopt is
> not yet implemented in octave. All other languages I use (C, bash, perl,
> R) have such a possibility. For me as a octave newcomer it is not very
> easy to do it.
>
> Juergen
>

Octave is most often used interactively, so this requirement does not
come up often. But I suppose it shouldn't be  hard to implement by
wrapping the GNU getopt function. It would just take someone's time.
Maybe yours?

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