Re: New file uploaded to boost - Command Line Parsing

From: williamkempf_at_[hidden]
Date: 2001-03-02 11:08:45

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>   File        : /Command Line Parsing/getopt.zip 
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>   Description : A class, cmdline, that allows for flexible parsing 
of command line options. 
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> You can access this file at the URL
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> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boost/files/Command%20Line%
20Parsing/getopt.zip 

This is the command line parser I talked about yesterday.  The 
main.cpp gives a generic example of how to use it.

Some warnings:

The code is not Boostified in any way.  It was written adhoc in a 
hurry, so the parsing code may have minor bugs (tested fairly 
thoroughly, but I'm sure some sneaked through) and is ugly in nature 
(may need some optimizing as well).  The interface is a strange 
hybrid of standard container functionality minus the iterators and 
specialized functionality.  It may be beneficial to make this a full 
blown container, including iterators which would be used instead of 
the next() method.  However, that leads to some questions about how 
to deal with errors during parsing, so I kept it simple in this 
initial release.

I'm sure there are numerous other things that could be improved upon 
here, but for the most part this works and is simple to use, so it 
should be a good starting point.

Bill Kempf