Re: command line parsing

From: cl_corba_at (Christian.Lipp_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-04-14 06:40:00

Thanks a lot for this link.
I am glad to see that there is a library into review process.

When I checked the documentation, I saw that windows command line
(WinMain - whole arguments without programm name in a C-string) are
not supported.

So someone has to use tokenizer to split the string into a vector and
a seperator is still missing.

CL

--- In Boost-Users_at_[hidden], HartmutKaiser_at_t... wrote:
> cl_corba_at wrote:
> 
> > What is the "boost way" of parsing command line arguments?
> > 
> > When I searched the archives, some user recommended spirit for
this 
> > task, but this seems to heavy-weighted for me.
> > 
> > I tried tokenizer, but a seperator for the command line is not 
> > provided.
> > - you have to remove quotations marks
> >   (only escaped_list_separator can do this)
> > - your have to ignore multiple tokens
> >   (only char_seperator can do this)
> > If I write this seperator its still wouldn't provide the api I
would 
> > like to see for a command line parser.
> > 
> > I saw in the past there have been an attemp by Bill Kempf to
provide 
> > a command line parser for boost but it didn't find its way into
the 
> > library from reasons I don't know.
> > 
> > So is there a recommended way to parse options I did 
> > overlook? Is a command line parser planned?
> 
> As far as I remember Vladimir Prus has requested Boost review for
his
> program_options library. You can find it here:
> 
> http://zigzag.cs.msu.su:7813/program_options
> 
> I've used it for several applications and must say, that it is very
> simple, powerful and flexible to use.
> 
> Regards Hartmut