Re: [Boost-users] Re: Program options: terminating parsing.

From: The Grumpiest Man You Know (mrgrumpyguts_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-04 02:30:58

On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 01:48:29 -0500, Miro Jurisic <macdev_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> In article <fd20bbcf05030321517ed55dd6_at_[hidden]>,
>  The Grumpiest Man You Know <mrgrumpyguts_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 
> >
> > foo -foo_opt1 value -foo_flag ... command_name -cmd_option cmd_val
> > -cmd_flag word ...
> 
> I think we can summarize this part as "I am trying to write xargs". Even if you
> are not, what you are doing with your command line arguments is essentially the
> same as what xargs does, and I think that's a legitimate need.

Very incisive, it's very much like xargs command line.  And putting it
that way, I believe there was another chap here last week looking at
the same thing.   Thank you, I'll go see if he was given the answer I
should have read before now. :)

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