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Hello Jasen - 

CA>> Whitespace works too. 

JB> I meant by separate i meant to provide a way to
JB> diferentiate between them 

CA>>>> With argc available I don't see the need for the switch
CA>>>> chars. Order of entry should be sufficient. 

ac>>> touch t 030806 myfile 

ac>>> then you would need to always three arguments. Plus it's
ac>>> not so obvious that argv[1] is a switch and that argv[2]
ac>>> is the parameter to argv[2]. Someone unfamilar with the
ac>>> touch utility may think that 030806 is a filename. 

CA>> I used "touch t030806 myfile" (no whitespace) and parsed
CA>> from whitespace to whitespace. 

JB> what happens if you've got a file called d030707 etc... 

Good point. I guess I've been mainly writing utlities to pipe
from stdin to stdout. 

JB> if you use swiutches it lets you reliably tackle more than
JB> one file at a time in this scenario. 

True again. Dealing with multiple filenames would put me back
where I started with bloated command line parsing code and at
that point I may as well use getopt() or something similar with
switch characters. :-) 

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