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new(*arguments) public

Set up option processing.

The options to support are passed to new() as an array of arrays. Each sub-array contains any number of String option names which carry the same meaning, and one of the following flags:

GetoptLong::NO_ARGUMENT	Option does not take an argument.
GetoptLong::REQUIRED_ARGUMENT	Option always takes an argument.
GetoptLong::OPTIONAL_ARGUMENT	Option may or may not take an argument.

The first option name is considered to be the preferred (canonical) name. Other than that, the elements of each sub-array can be in any order.

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# File lib/getoptlong.rb, line 128
  def initialize(*arguments)
    #
    # Current ordering.
    #
    if ENV.include?('POSIXLY_CORRECT')
      @ordering = REQUIRE_ORDER
    else
      @ordering = PERMUTE
    end

    #
    # Hash table of option names.
    # Keys of the table are option names, and their values are canonical
    # names of the options.
    #
    @canonical_names = Hash.new

    #
    # Hash table of argument flags.
    # Keys of the table are option names, and their values are argument
    # flags of the options.
    #
    @argument_flags = Hash.new

    #
    # Whether error messages are output to $stderr.
    #
    @quiet = FALSE

    #
    # Status code.
    #
    @status = STATUS_YET

    #
    # Error code.
    #
    @error = nil

    #
    # Error message.
    #
    @error_message = nil

    #
    # Rest of catenated short options.
    #
    @rest_singles = ''

    #
    # List of non-option-arguments.
    # Append them to ARGV when option processing is terminated.
    #
    @non_option_arguments = Array.new

    if 0 < arguments.length
      set_options(*arguments)
    end
  end

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