is there any function in java which behaves like getopt from c

Question

Hello I am working on command line application which can accepts command line argument like

app -port 8888 -filename d:\\xyz\\xyz.pdf -dest d:\\pqr
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Answer 1

There are quite a few command line parser libraries for Java out there.

A recent (as of late 2019) command line parser with a lot of momentum and features is picocli.

Some older, popular ones are commons-cli (quite old), args4j and JCommander.