Re: [help-gengetopt] Non alphabetic characters as options ?

[Lorenzo Bettini]

I think I solved this issue; I'll provide you with a release candidate 
as soon as possible.

cheers
        Lorenzo

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?


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