Is there a way to get the command line arguments.

I am using getopt(3) but if the arguments are more than one for a particular option than it just ignores the second argument. For eg

./a.out -x abc def

now abd will be got with -x using getopt "( x : )" and string abc\0def will get stored in optarg.

Now while parsing I get the \0 in between so how can I get this sorted out.

Basically I want to enter the command like this

./a.out -k abc def -a junk -b junk1

now I want to store "abc" and "def" in some string. And parse further the options with -a and -b

I am using solaris 5.8

Regards
JK