GetOpt library for C#

Question

Hi,

I'm looking for a getopt library for c#. So far I found a few (phpguru, XGetOptCS, getoptfordotnet) but these look more like unfinished attempts that only support a part of C's getopt. Is there a full getopt c# implementation?

Answer 1

I've a project which will need this sort of thing eventually too. I was wondering whether PowerShell exposed any of its argument processing in a nice way... might be worth a look.

Are you really after "getopt for C#" or do you want an idiomatic, nice to work with argument parser for .NET? I would imagine a decent argument parser in .NET may well take advantage of things which couldn't be in getopt, such as declarative flags via attributes.

Answer 2

It's not getopt, but you might try NConsoler. It uses attributes to define arguments and actions.

Answer 3

Here is something I wrote, it works rather nice, and has quite a lot of features for the tiny amount of code. It is not getopts however, but it may suit your needs.

Feel free to ask some questions.

Answer 4

The Mono Project has (or rather had) one based on attributes, but last I checked it was marked as obsolete. But since it's open source, you might be able to pull the code out and use it yourself.

Answer 5

Here is a .NET Implementation of getopt: http://www.codeplex.com/getopt

Answer 6

For posterity:

CommandParser is another one with a BSD license

Answer 7

Miguel de Icaza raves about Mono.Options. It is just a single C# source file, so you can just include it in your project without introducing any new dependencies.