Re: [Boost-users] [program options] & also an apology to the list...

From: Chris Weed (chrisweed_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-06-10 17:58:38

It would probably be easier to diagnose your problem if you post an
entire code example that reproduces the problem.
Chris

On 6/10/07, jono <jp_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> ...for my earlier grumpy email about program_options.
>
> i'm was wanting to pass some sequences to some options using
> boost::program_options.  something like:
>
> [me_at_here ~]$program --opt1 1 2 3 4 --opt2 5 6 7 8 --opt3 xxx yyy zzz
>
> if i use
>
>    desc.add_options("opt1", value< vector<string> >()->multitoken(), "...")
>
> i get all the tokens to the end of the line.
>
> can i make multitoken() stop eating tokens by recognizing a syntactic
> element; either an option specifier or a token it can't interpret as a
> required type?  can i inherit from the value_semantic class to read
> multiple tokens maybe?
>
> this whole library is very interesting but subtle.   i do better when i
> can read examples of working code.  does anyone know a more extensive
> discussion of it besides the distibution docs?  ...which are great by the
> way!
>
> cheers jono
>
>
>
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