Getopt: command line parsing à la GNU getopt

Copyright (C) 2000-2004 Alain Frisch
distributed under an MIT-like license (see the COPYING file)
email: Alain.Frisch@ens.fr
web:   http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/frisch

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Contents of the distribution

Changes      History of code changes
COPYING      MIT license
README       This file
getopt.ml    source of Getopt (implementation)
getopt.mli   source of Getopt (interface)
sample.ml    a sample program to demonstrate the use of the module
Makefile     Makefile to build the module and the sample program

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What is it ?

The OCaml distribution comes with the module Arg specialized in
command-line parsing. However, it doesn't support the well known
features of GNU getopt and getopt_long.

The module Getopt is an alternative; it supports GNU syntax, but from the
programmer point of view, it is close to the spirit of Arg: the programmer
gives to the general parsing function a list of possible options, together
with the behaviour of these options.  

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General usage information

The documentation is included in the file getopt.mli.
There is an example in sample.ml.