Re: [Boost-users] [program_options] multitoken

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-24 11:15:36

Javier Gonzalez wrote:

> Hi again
>  
>  I tried what was in the tutorials at the time and the thing was that,
>  let's say I wanted include paths and files, I would have to write the
>  following:
>  
>  myCommand -I /path1 -I /path2 -f file1 -f file2
>  
>  (specifying the option for each file and path so it's pushed back into
>  the vector) That is fine, but if I try the following:
>  
>  myCommand -I /path1 /path2 -f file1 file2
>  
>  then the parser didn't recognize the 'file' option and the paths
>  vector<string> had all these elements:
>   /path1, /path2, -f, file1, file2
>  
>  That wa not what I expected. In particular, I wanted to do something like
>  myCommand -I /path1/* -f file*, and ran into the previous problem.

To begin with, what if you have a file starting with "-I" and your command
line is :

   -f file* -I /path1/*

What should happen?

- Volodya