Command Line Parsing

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A number of modules are available for command-line parsing in Lua:

AlternativeGetOpt
CommandLineModule
getopt module in stdlib [1] ([git version])
Metalua's option parser: [code] [discussion]
See near line 129 of [2] by David Given [discussion]
LappFramework - GNU style parsing options, derived from usage text
PenLight? has a small, focused GNU-style command line parser [3]
LuaApr has [apr.getopt()] to parse an array of command line arguments given the options defined by a usage text (inspired by LappFramework) and [apr.tokenize_to_argv()] to parse a command line string into an an array of command line arguments
[pythonic.optparse] - Lua-based partial reimplementation of Python's optparse [4] (DavidManura, used by ModuleCompressDeflateLua and LuaPatch)

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