note 41862 added to function.getopt

"phpnotes at kipu dot co dot uk" and "tim at digicol dot de" are both wrong or misleading. Sean was correct. Quoted space-containing strings on the command line are one argument. It has to do with how the shell handles the command line, more than PHP. PHP's getopt() is modeled on and probably built upon the Unix/POSIX/C library getopt(3) which treats strings as strings, and does not break them apart on white space. Here's proof: $ cat opt.php #! /usr/local/bin/php <?php $options = getopt("f:"); print_r($options); ?> $ opt.php -f a b c Array ( [f] => a ) $ opt.php -f 'a b c' Array ( [f] => a b c ) $ opt.php -f "a b c" Array ( [f] => a b c ) $ opt.php -f a\ b\ c Array ( [f] => a b c ) $ ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.getopt.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+41862 Delete -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+41862&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+41862&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php