getopt.pl

;# $RCSfile: getopt.pl,v $$Revision: 4.1 $$Date: 92/08/07 18:23:58 $
#
# This library is no longer being maintained, and is included for backward
# compatibility with Perl 4 programs which may require it.
# This legacy library is deprecated and will be removed in a future
# release of perl.
#
# In particular, this should not be used as an example of modern Perl
# programming techniques.
#
# Suggested alternatives: Getopt::Long or Getopt::Std

;# Process single-character switches with switch clustering.  Pass one argument
;# which is a string containing all switches that take an argument.  For each
;# switch found, sets $opt_x (where x is the switch name) to the value of the
;# argument, or 1 if no argument.  Switches which take an argument don't care
;# whether there is a space between the switch and the argument.

;# Usage:
;#	do Getopt('oDI');  # -o, -D & -I take arg.  Sets opt_* as a side effect.

sub Getopt {
  local($argumentative) = @_;
  local($_,$first,$rest);
  local($[) = 0;
  
  while (@ARGV && ($_ = $ARGV[0]) =~ /^-(.)(.*)/) {
    ($first,$rest) = ($1,$2);
    if (index($argumentative,$first) >= $[) {
      if ($rest ne '') {
        shift(@ARGV);
      }
      else {
        shift(@ARGV);
        $rest = shift(@ARGV);
      }
      ${"opt_$first"} = $rest;
    }
    else {
      ${"opt_$first"} = 1;
      if ($rest ne '') {
        $ARGV[0] = "-$rest";
      }
      else {
        shift(@ARGV);
      }
    }
  }
}

1;