From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NTVgB-0004rb-Fj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 09 Jan 2010 07:24:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B73FBE06D7; Sat, 9 Jan 2010 07:23:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpout.karoo.kcom.com (smtpout.karoo.kcom.com [212.50.160.34]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73E54E06D7 for ; Sat, 9 Jan 2010 07:23:50 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.49,246,1262563200"; d="scan'208";a="162554354" Received: from unknown (HELO compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org) ([213.152.39.90]) by smtpout.karoo.kcom.com with ESMTP; 09 Jan 2010 07:23:49 +0000 Received: from funf.stroller.uk.eu.org (funf.stroller.uk.eu.org [192.168.1.71]) by compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58AD213BFF; Sat, 9 Jan 2010 07:23:46 +0000 (GMT) Cc: Stefan Schulte Message-Id: <4BF58C29-EA01-4B90-80F8-8347989D7EA6@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> From: Stroller To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20091226114849.GA7147@nebukadnezar.matrix.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Installation (or not) of Perl Getopt::Long Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 07:23:45 +0000 References: <20091226114849.GA7147@nebukadnezar.matrix.de> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) X-Archives-Salt: 18dedb7c-7975-40ed-81cd-2d78817b46cb X-Archives-Hash: b98c9ea110f0c3aaf3560239ebd6df6c Thanks for your reply, Stefan, and sorry not to have responded sooner. By the time you replied, I had already committed some to grappling =20 with Getopt::Long and had worked through some examples. I won't bore =20 you with the explanation of why getopts became no longer relevant. Stroller. On 26 Dec 2009, at 11:48, Stefan Schulte wrote: > you may also want to look at Getopt::Declare. If you dont want to do > something fancy you just have to write the =BBprogram -help=AB page = and > you're done. >> I have been experimenting with the Getopt::Long module, which seems =20= >> to be working fine, but I'm considering Getopt::Tabular instead.