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From: "Mikael" <mindcooler AT gmail DOT com>
Subject:  Re: Shouldn't getopt_long() return : here?
Date:  Sun, 24 Apr 2005 22:15:30 +0200
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"Charles Wilson" wrote:
> Mikael wrote:
>
>>    const char *short_options = "";
>
> This is your problem.  You need to have ':' as the first character in 
> short_options, if you want the behavior you describe.  (Also, if you plan 
> to handle errors -- including printing the error message yourself -- you 
> need to set the global variable opterr to 0)
>
> So, you need
>     const char *short_options = ":";
>     /* opterr = 0; */ /* maybe */
>
> --
> Chuck
>

Thanks Mr Wilson. I need to find a better reference it seems or maybe I'm 
too stupid to read the online man pages, lol.

/ Mikael 




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