Using getopts to process long and short command line options

Question

I wish to have long and short forms of command line options invoked using my shell script.

I know that getopts can be used, but like in Perl, I have not

Answer 1

I kind of solved this way:

# A string with command options
options=$@

# An array with all the arguments
arguments=($options)

# Loop index
index=0

for argument in $options
  do
    # Incrementing index
    index=`expr $index + 1`

    # The conditions
    case $argument in
      -a) echo "key $argument value ${arguments[index]}" ;;
      -abc) echo "key $argument value ${arguments[index]}" ;;
    esac
  done

exit;

Am I being dumb or something? getopt and getopts are so confusing.