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- .PP
- Given a vector of string-valued arguments such as that passed to \fImain\fP
- and a vector describing the possible arguments, \fIparseargs\fP matches
- actual arguments to possible arguments, converts values to the desired type,
- and diagnoses problems such as missing arguments, extra arguments,
- and argument values that are syntactically incorrect.
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