Re: [boost] Re: New file uploaded to boost - Command Line Parsing

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-03-02 12:47:36

At 04:08 PM 3/2/2001 +0000, williamkempf_at_[hidden] wrote:

 >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.

Jens Maurer's original version of regression.cpp started out with:

   std::vector<std::string> args( argv+1, argv+argc );

That simplified later processing.

--Beman