Re: Non alphabetic characters as options ?

Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
> John Darrington wrote:
>> I'm trying to use '?' as a short option character, since I've used -h
>> for other purposes.
>>
>> Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to be allowed.  Is there a work
>> around for this?
>>
>>
>> gengetopt:6: syntax error ?
>> gengetopt:6: option "help"                    ? "Show help information"
>> gengetopt:6:                                  ^
>> make: *** [cmdline.h] Error 1
> 
> Hi John
> 
> It looks like getopt_long uses ? for its own purposes, see the man page:
> 
> If getopt() does not recognize  an  option  character,  it
>        prints an error message to stderr, stores the character in
>        optopt, and returns `?'.  The calling program may  prevent
>        the error message by setting opterr to 0.
> 
> so probably, I don't know whether it is possible to do this...
> 
> any clue anyone?
> 

Hi there

sorry for the silence

I solved the problem and ? can now be used as character for options

I've committed the modifications in the CVS or you can find a temporary 
version here:

http://rap.dsi.unifi.it/~bettini/gengetopt-2.22b.tar.gz

look forward to getting feedback :-)
cheers
	Lorenzo

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