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History for Strbuf and ParseOpts?

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DCDavid Chanters <david.chanters@googlemail.com>
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Apr 17, 2011, 15:13 UTC
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Hi,

I shouldn't conflate to two (parseopts and strbuf) but can someone tell me how these two things came about -- that is, when/why/how? If I understand strbuf correctly, it's a transparent and dynamic way of handling strings? If so, how useful would it be as a separate project?

TIA!
David
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