Hi Charles.

05-Aug-03 15:27:04, Charles Angelich wrote to Andrew Clarke

 CA> Whitespace works too.

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

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

 ac>> touch t 030806 myfile

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

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

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

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

 -=> Bye <=-

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