>
> Bill Kempf
>
> I U/L a command line parsing concept to the Files section some time
> ago.  It's a raw parser with few bells and whistles, which seems to
> not be what people want. 
>

This is in fact close to what I want. Only instead of using ids I
found it more convienent to pass references to result variables.

string str_opt;
bool bool_opt;
args.add_option('s', "stringoption", str_opt, cmdline::optional);
args.add_option('b', "booloption", bool_opt, cmdline::required);