note 82793 modified in function.getopt by danbrown

From: Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:29:30 +0000
Subject: note 82793 modified in function.getopt by danbrown
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One thing of important note would be that getopt() actually respects the '--' option to end an option list. Thus given the code: test.php: <?php $options = getopt("m:g:h:"); if (!is_array($options) ) { print "There was a problem reading in the options.\n\n"; exit(1); } $errors = array(); print_r($options); ?> And running: # ./test.php ./run_vfs -h test1 -g test2 -m test3 -- this is a test -m green Will return: Array ( [h] => test1 [g] => test2 [m] => test3 ) Whereas running: # /test.php ./run_vfs -h test1 -g test2 -m test3 this is a test -m green Will return: Array ( [h] => test1 [g] => test2 [m] => Array ( [0] => test3 [1] => green ) ) --was-- One thing of important note would be that getopt() actually respects the '--' option to end an option list. Thus given the code: test.php: <? $options = getopt("m:g:h:"); if (!is_array($options) ) { print "There was a problem reading in the options.\n\n"; exit(1); } $errors = array(); print_r($options); ?> And running: # ./test.php ./run_vfs -h test1 -g test2 -m test3 -- this is a test -m green Will return: Array ( [h] => test1 [g] => test2 [m] => test3 ) Whereas running: # /test.php ./run_vfs -h test1 -g test2 -m test3 this is a test -m green Will return: Array ( [h] => test1 [g] => test2 [m] => Array ( [0] => test3 [1] => green ) ) http://php.net/manual/en/function.getopt.php

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