I just caught myself doing something I do a lot, and wanted to generalize it, express it, share it and see who else is following this general practice, to find some other example situations where it might be relevant.
The general practice is getting something wrong first, on purpose, to establish that everything else is right before und...
Any good alternative written in C to replace Boost.Program_options? Given it's able to parse:
Short options like -h
Long options like --help --input-file
Parse repeated keys/options
Accepts key-value pairs: --mysql=/usr/lib
Parsing environmental variables and XML/INI files is optional.
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I've seen people write custom classes to more easily handle command line options in various languages. I wondered if .NET (3.5 or lower) has anything built in so that you don't have to custom-parse things like:
myapp.exe file=text.txt
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I was just writing a console utility and decided to use NDesk.Options for command-line parsing. My question is, How do I enforce required command-line options?
I see in the docs that:
options with a required value (append '=' to the option name) or an optional value (append ':' to the option name).
However, when I put a = at the ...
I am making a batch file to automate mysql installation silently. When I type the following line in the command prompt everything works fine.
"C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.1\bin\mysqlinstanceconfig.exe" -i -q ServiceName="mydb" RootPassword="pos" ServerType=DEVELOPMENT DatabaseType=INNODB Port=3306
My question is: can I someh...
I have this Java enum:
public enum Commands
{
RESIZE_WINDOW("size -size"),
CREATE_CHARACTER("create-char -name"),
NEW_SCENE("scene -image"),
DIALOG("d -who -words"),
PLAY_SOUND("sound -file --blocking=false"),
FADE_TO("fade-to -file"),
WAIT("w -length=auto");
}
I want to be able to parse those strings and e...
Because of certain special requirements of one of the C# applications I was developing, I had to write my own command-line arguments parser library. With the limited documentation available for GNU getopt (at least I couldn't find much immediately) and with my limited exposure to the open-source world, I couldn't comprehensively evaluate...