switches

[farzal]

Hi,
Is there an easy way (aka builtin function) to process commandline switches and arguments. For example, can might do this:
somefile.php -a "arg1" -b "arg2" -s "arg3 is this"

And php function would process this and return variables, say, VARa, VARb, VARs

I know once can do this in perl (using getopt) and also in Bshell.

Any hint, or code you have written will be helpful. Thanks !
Farzal

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Search the manual for argv and argc

[farzal]

yeah, but I think with argv and argc, I will have to write my own function to parse all the command line switches/arguments. I was hoping not to reinvent the wheel. I would appreciate if someone has written this function and is willing to share the code 🙂

(P.S. For example, perl's getopt function would process this:
somefile.pl -a hello -b world -s "bye bye"

And return $opt_x, $opt_b, $opt_s with respective values. It makes life really convinient)