How would I specify an empty vector of strings as the default value for this option?
po::value< vector<string> >()->default_value(??)

-Sanjit

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Sanjit Jhala <sjhalaz@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks Ryan, this should work for me.

-Sanjit


On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Ryan Gallagher <ryan.gallagher@gmail.com> wrote:
Sanjit Jhala <sjhalaz <at> gmail.com> writes:
> Say I want to specify a list of servers via the boost program_options
> library. Something like:
> --total-servers N --server srv1 --server srv2 ... --server srvN
> How would I do this?

Have you tried sending a std::vector<std::string> as the option value?

("server", po::value< vector<string> >()

See the "Option Details" section in the tutorial:

http://tinyurl.com/yd95h2r

HTH,

-Ryan

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