-;# $Header: getopt.pl,v 4.0 91/03/20 01:25:11 lwall Locked $
+;# $RCSfile: getopt.pl,v $$Revision: 4.1 $$Date: 92/08/07 18:23:58 $
+#
+# This library is no longer being maintained, and is included for backward
+# compatibility with Perl 4 programs which may require it.
+# This legacy library is deprecated and will be removed in a future
+# release of perl.
+#
+# In particular, this should not be used as an example of modern Perl
+# programming techniques.
+#
+# Suggested alternatives: Getopt::Long or Getopt::Std
+
+warn( "The 'getopt.pl' legacy library is deprecated and will be"
+ . " removed in the next major release of perl. Please use the"
+ . " Getopt::Long or Getopt::Std modules instead." );
;# Process single-character switches with switch clustering. Pass one argument
;# which is a string containing all switches that take an argument. For each
local($_,$first,$rest);
local($[) = 0;
- while (($_ = $ARGV[0]) =~ /^-(.)(.*)/) {
+ while (@ARGV && ($_ = $ARGV[0]) =~ /^-(.)(.*)/) {
($first,$rest) = ($1,$2);
if (index($argumentative,$first) >= $[) {
if ($rest ne '') {
shift(@ARGV);
$rest = shift(@ARGV);
}
- eval "\$opt_$first = \$rest;";
+ ${"opt_$first"} = $rest;
}
else {
- eval "\$opt_$first = 1;";
+ ${"opt_$first"} = 1;
if ($rest ne '') {
$ARGV[0] = "-$rest";
}