How to getopt?

[Steve Litt <slitt@...>]

Hi all,

I'm rewriting my UMENU program 
(http://www.troubleshooters.com/umenu/index.htm) in Lua, and so far so good. 
So far, I see little reason to ever use Perl again :-)

UMENU uses Perl's getopt_long. I've read all sorts of things about Lua's 
Getopt facility, and so far it seems like yes, there's one in the standard 
package, but some are saying it doesn't work all that well and a lot of people 
are writing their own getopt facilities.

Ideally, I'd like my Lua based UMENU to work with plain, ordinary, everyone 
can install it Lua, rather than depending on special packages the user needs 
to install, so if the one in the standard library works, that's what I'd like 
to use. I could also just manually check for arguments -- there aren't that 
many options to UMENU.

So what are you all using for Getopt or preferably Getopt_long in Lua?

Thanks

SteveT

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