[Boost-users] [program_options] How do I read a vector of strings?

From: Matthew P. Cashdollar (mpc_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-01-21 16:50:19

Hello,

I have been using program_options for a while and it works great. 
However, I don't know how to make a program which behaves like this:

   programname -blah abc -blah def -blah ghi

In my code I would read the option blah as a vector of strings, like:

po::options_description desc("Configuration");
desc.add_options()
        ("blah",
                po::value<vector<string>>(),
                "the location of the blah device")
;
po::store(po::parse_config_file(config_file, desc), vm);
po::notify(vm);

etc.

When I try to compile the code under MSVC++ 7.0 I get this error (among 
others):

error C2947: expecting '>' to terminate template-argument-list, found '>>'

Is it possible for me to do what I am trying to with the program_options 
library?

Thanks,
-Matt