getoptions

Simple golang getopt function, an approximation of the FreeBSD getopt_long library routine.

Supports forms like:

--help -h --file data --file=data -v -f data -vvvfdata

See the godoc for this module for details.

# Functions

Getopt

parse options from an arbitrary array of strings Note that the input string slices does not contain any program name.

GetOS

parse options from OS command-line Return values: program_name - string options - map["option"]=[]string{"value1","value2"} use len(option["verbose"]) to detect a sequence like: -v -v -v the actual value will be options["verbose"] = []string{"", "", ""} arguments - []string (all items not starting with "-" that do not belong to option and everything after --) err - nil if parsing was sucessful.