Re: [Boost-users] [program_options] is this library actually useful

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-06-06 03:57:11

jp_at_[hidden] wrote:

> hi,
> 
> i hate rewriting getopts, but avaliable implimentations are always
> horrible, so there i was.  then i decided to use boost::program_options
> ....
> 
> all i want to do is something like..:
> 
> 
> translate --seq1 10 --seq2 10 13 --filter *.cpp *.hpp *.h
> 
> where seq1 and seq2 can take any number of numbers between 0 and 255
> 
> anyway, if i use anything like
> 
> desc.add_options
>     ("seq1", po::value< std::vector<byte> >() -> multitoken() ->
> composing() -> notifier(seq1()), "byte sequence to find")
> 
> it just returns all the tokens following the first option.  is the library
> too stupid to stop eating tokens when it comes to another option?  if so,
> what is its point?

I'm sorry for being rush, but unless you'll manage to ask questions in a polite
way, your questions are likely to be purely rhetorical.

- Volodya