Case Statement

Hey, guys I really need some help with a project.

"Write a shell program that examines the command line arguments, counts and collects the number of options. Basically it has to collect and count the arguments that start with a "-" and the one's that don't start with a -

I know I have to use -*) and *) I am having trouble actually creating the structure

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