RE: [boost] Re: Any interest for a parser class?

From: Jacob Cohen (cohen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-01-25 12:36:02

The approach you described is quite similar to what I wrote earlier this
week and posted to my web site. A visitor suggested I submit my idea to this
discussion. Hopefully it will provide you at least one 'concrete
implementation' to review and compare with your idea.

Location: http://www.rafb.net/cpp/ (The top three files listed)

-Jake.

-----Original Message-----
From: Douglas Gregor [mailto:gregod_at_[hidden]]
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 1:39 PM
To: boost_at_[hidden]
Subject: Re: [boost] Re: Any interest for a parser class?

Sorry, I'll try again. Let's assume that CLA is a command-line parser class.
CLA will contain the ability to parse several types of options (e.g., -foo,
--bar=value). However, we know that CLA can't always do everything that the
user needs, so CLA needs to be extensible to be able to meet the needs of
these users.

-- snip --

If that didn't clarify things, I'll wait until I look at a concrete
implementation of a command line argument parser and describe how it is or
could be extensible by user-defined parsers.