What's an effective way to parse command line parameters in C++?

Question

Is there a really effective way of dealing with command line parameters in C++?

What I\'m doing below feels completely amateurish, and I can\'t imagine this is how comma

Answer 1

I am using getopt() under windows/mingw :

while ((c = getopt(myargc, myargv, "vp:d:rcx")) != -1) {
        switch (c) {
        case 'v': // print version
            printf("%s Version %s\n", myargv[0], VERSION);
            exit(0);
            break;
        case 'p': // change local port to listen to
            strncpy(g_portnum, optarg, 10);
            break;
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