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Return the command&hyphen;line options and their values&period;

== Synopsis

Declared in `&lt;balcl&lowbar;commandline&period;h&gt;`

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xref:BloombergLP/balcl/CommandLineOptionsHandle.adoc[CommandLineOptionsHandle]
options() const;
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== Description

If an option was not entered on the command line _and_ a default value was provided for that option, then that default value will be used (note the difference with the `specifiedOptions` method)&period; If an option was not entered on the command line _and_ no default value was provided for that option, then the corresponding option will be in a null state&period; The behavior is undefined unless `isParsed` returns `true`&period;

== Return Value

handle to the command&hyphen;line options and their values


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