argument parsing library for C programs?

[Paul E Johnson]

Dear C programmer folk:

I learnt command line argument parsing with Swarm, but now need to do a 
C program with no Swarm (for comparison purposes, one must walk on the 
dark side).  So to parse command line arguments, would you recommend any 
command line argument parsing libraries for me?  If there were one that 
worked on the same principles as Swarm, it would be most easy for me, of 
course.

I found one called popt that is a library that the RedHat folk have 
souped up to work with the rpm system. I'm thinking I might try that, 
since it is in all my systems already.  It looks like an afternoon of 
manual reading and fiddling. I find that, if I ask first in here, I get 
advice that might lead me into another package.

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