7.4 The (ice-9 getopt-long) Module
The (ice-9 getopt-long) module exports two procedures:
getopt-long and option-ref.
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getopt-long takes a list of strings — the command line
arguments — and an option specification. It parses the command
line arguments according to the option specification and returns a data
structure that encapsulates the results of the parsing.
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option-ref then takes the parsed data structure and a specific
option’s name, and returns information about that option in particular.
To make these procedures available to your Guile script, include the
expression (use-modules (ice-9 getopt-long)) somewhere near the
top, before the first usage of getopt-long or option-ref.
