OpenEuphoria

Re: Bitten by Bind

• Posted by "Greg Haberek" <ghaberek at gmail.com> Apr 17, 2006
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> I can see what happened. When the binder checks for
> command-line options, it's very permissive. It uses
> match() rather than equal(), so actually any option
> you type containing the substring "OUT" will be accepted as
> the -OUT option which specifies a target file to overwrite.
> I'll do it a safer way for the next release.
> I was thinking that people might sometimes misspell an option
> slightly, and rather than complain, I'd just accept it.
> e.g. they might say "-console" instead of "-con".

Perhaps the best option would be:

if match( "-con", lower(argv) ) = 1 then
    -- do stuff here
end if

~Greg