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+-- Copyright (c) 2009 Aleksey Cheusov <vle@gmx.net>
+--
+-- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
+-- a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
+-- "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
+-- without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
+-- distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
+-- permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
+-- the following conditions:
+--
+-- The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
+-- included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+--
+-- THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
+-- EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
+-- MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
+-- NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
+-- LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
+-- OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
+-- WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+
+-- based on https://github.com/LuaDist/alt-getopt/blob/master/alt_getopt.lua
+-- MIT licence
+-- modified to support non-options and to not call os.exit()
+-- intended to be used via utils.processArgs2()
+
+local _ENV = mkmodule('alt_getopt')
+
+local function convert_short2long (opts)
+   local i = 1
+   local len = #opts
+   local ret = {}
+
+   for short_opt, accept_arg in opts:gmatch("(%w)(:?)") do
+      ret[short_opt]=#accept_arg
+   end
+
+   return ret
+end
+
+local function exit_with_error (msg, exit_status)
+   io.stderr:write (msg)
+   os.exit (exit_status)
+end
+
+local function err_unknown_opt (opt)
+   exit_with_error ("Unknown option `-" ..
+		    (#opt > 1 and "-" or "") .. opt .. "'\n", 1)
+end
+
+local function canonize (options, opt)
+   if not options [opt] then
+      err_unknown_opt (opt)
+   end
+
+   while type (options [opt]) == "string" do
+      opt = options [opt]
+
+      if not options [opt] then
+	 err_unknown_opt (opt)
+      end
+   end
+
+   return opt
+end
+
+function get_ordered_opts (arg, sh_opts, long_opts)
+   local i      = 1
+   local count  = 1
+   local opts   = {}
+   local optarg = {}
+
+   local options = convert_short2long (sh_opts)
+   for k,v in pairs (long_opts) do
+      options [k] = v
+   end
+
+   while i <= #arg do
+      local a = arg [i]
+
+      if a == "--" then
+	 i = i + 1
+	 break
+
+      elseif a == "-" then
+	 break
+
+      elseif a:sub (1, 2) == "--" then
+	 local pos = a:find ("=", 1, true)
+
+	 if pos then
+	    local opt = a:sub (3, pos-1)
+
+	    opt = canonize (options, opt)
+
+	    if options [opt] == 0 then
+	       exit_with_error ("Bad usage of option `" .. a .. "'\n", 1)
+	    end
+
+	    optarg [count] = a:sub (pos+1)
+	    opts [count] = opt
+	 else
+	    local opt = a:sub (3)
+
+	    opt = canonize (options, opt)
+
+	    if options [opt] == 0 then
+	       opts [count] = opt
+	    else
+	       if i == #arg then
+		  exit_with_error ("Missed value for option `" .. a .. "'\n", 1)
+	       end
+
+	       optarg [count] = arg [i+1]
+	       opts [count] = opt
+	       i = i + 1
+	    end
+	 end
+	 count = count + 1
+
+      elseif a:sub (1, 1) == "-" then
+	 local j
+	 for j=2,a:len () do
+	    local opt = canonize (options, a:sub (j, j))
+
+	    if options [opt] == 0 then
+	       opts [count] = opt
+	       count = count + 1
+	    elseif a:len () == j then
+	       if i == #arg then
+		  exit_with_error ("Missed value for option `-" .. opt .. "'\n", 1)
+	       end
+
+	       optarg [count] = arg [i+1]
+	       opts [count] = opt
+	       i = i + 1
+	       count = count + 1
+	       break
+	    else
+	       optarg [count] = a:sub (j+1)
+	       opts [count] = opt
+	       count = count + 1
+	       break
+	    end
+	 end
+      else
+	 break
+      end
+
+      i = i + 1
+   end
+
+   return opts,i,optarg
+end
+
+function get_opts (arg, sh_opts, long_opts)
+   local ret = {}
+
+   local opts,optind,optarg = get_ordered_opts (arg, sh_opts, long_opts)
+   for i,v in ipairs (opts) do
+      if optarg [i] then
+	 ret [v] = optarg [i]
+      else
+	 ret [v] = 1
+      end
+   end
+
+   return ret,optind
+end
+
+return _ENV