can the ksh getopts be used as a library elsewhere ?

[tungstengmd]

i really like the korn shell getopts, especially the self documenting capabilities, and i was just wondering if it could be used elsewhere in other languages !

[jghub]

I agree getopts is really useful for providing decently formatted help to shell scripts. I do not know whether it could be made available easily as a separate library. personally I would find that useful (I have used very thin ksh wrappers around lua and tcl scripts for the sole purpose of making getopts available ;)). but I would guess that other languages will usually stick to their own established help facilities even where those might be considered inferior (in my limited experience, what I have seen from phython in these terms was not impressive, e.g. ;)). so...

[tungstengmd]

i've seen that perl has it Really good, with getopt::long and pod::usage, but i'm still used to the korn shell syntax [and having to do GetOptions "test" => \$testvar or die or something like that is quite annoying
still nice that we have pod and getopt together with it being cross platform too :>