ch15_02.htm

By Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington ISBN 1-56592-243-3 First Edition, published August 1998

> or not at all</P
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>Mandatory string parameter: -  -<CODE
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>Mandatory floating point parameter: -  -<CODE
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>Optional floating point parameter: -  -<CODE
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>The documentation for the standard Getopt::Long and Getopt::Std modules; examples of argument parsing by hand can be found in <A
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HREF="ch01_06.htm"
TITLE="Processing a String One Character at a Time"
>Recipe 1.5</A
>, <A
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HREF="ch01_18.htm"
TITLE="Program: fixstyle"
>Recipe 1.17</A
>, <A
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HREF="ch06_23.htm"
TITLE="Program: tcgrep"
>Recipe 6.22</A
>, <A
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HREF="ch07_08.htm"
TITLE="Writing a Filter"
>Recipe 7.7</A
>, <A
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HREF="ch08_20.htm"
TITLE="Program: tctee"
>Recipe 8.19</A
>, and <A
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TITLE="Managing the Screen"
>Recipe 15.12</A
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