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<brent@marooned.tamu.edu> writes:
>The manpage also could use some work.
>perldoc Getopt::Std
>
>It appears to me that:
> getopt('oDI'); # -o, -D & -I take arg.
>appears to be incorrect...I understood that : signified if it took an arg or not.
That is the difference between 'getopt' (documented as above) and 'getopts'
which is documented (on the next line but one) to use the ':'.
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Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com>
Via, but not speaking for: Texas Instruments Ltd.
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