Parsing options in the form "-C8"

[irenezerafa]

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On Tuesday, November 16th, 2021 at 7:34 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> 
wrote:

> On 11/16/21 2:28 PM, irenezerafa via wrote:
>
> > I want to parse options in the following way "-C8", with the option being 
> > -C and the value being `8`. What can
> > I do to implement the functionality?

> Use `getopts'.

I do not want to go through the getopts or getopt routes.  Primarily because 
they are too simplistic
for my tasks.  I am allowing both short and long options in my code, as well as 
optional values for
options, multiple values per option.