Re: [Boost-users] [program_options] Getting access to the remaining argv

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [program_options] Getting access to the remaining argv
From: Johan Nilsson (r.johan.nilsson_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-03-10 09:38:42

Ruediger Berlich wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I have a program ("A") that calls other, external programs ("B"). A
> can get a number of command line options, which are parsed with the
> help of the program_options library. B may also accept options (which
> are possibly defined by other people and not known to me in advance).
> Thus I want to pass all those options that are not known to A on to
> B, in the hope that they are needed for that program.
>
> Is there a way to retrieve the remaining argv string, with all
> options "known" to A removed ? Or should I better invent a flag of the
> following kind for A
>
> --external-options="-a 1 -b 2 -c 3"
>
> whose value is passed on to the external program ?

What about:

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_38_0/doc/html/boost/program_options/collect_unrecognized.html

HTH / Johan