Command line parsing in Tcl [duplicate] - parsing

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how to create tcl proc with hyphen flag arguments
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I have a script that will require many short and long options and was wondering what would be the most efficient way to parse the command line arguments. Using for-each and if-else would make the code too long and difficult to modify, so is there be any standard function that can help me (something like getopt for C)?

We discussed this four days ago and a few suggestions were posted.
There is also the cmdline package in Tcllib.

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Is there a way to add a text by reference using LaTeX? I have several text references to 'versionXX.yy'. I wonder if I can define this in one place so I don't need to update it in all places.
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What's a Rails plugin, or Ruby gem, to automatically fix English grammar?
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What is the standard (or best supported) big number (arbitrary precision) library for Lua?
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Length of a sequential table in Lua may skip indices? [duplicate]

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An Interesting phenomenon of Lua's table
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In Lua is seems that if a single numeric key is missing from the table, the length still continues counting:
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> print(#x)
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