Re: [Boost-users] [program_options][1.35] validating string value

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [program_options][1.35] validating string value
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-02-25 21:16:51

AMDG

Soumen wrote:
> My option (say, "opt1") can take any of only few possible string type values
> (say, "value1", "value2", "value3" and "value4"). Is there anyway to specify
> this such that if any other value, say - "valueXX", is passed to "opt1", it
> throws an error?
>
> If yes, can someone point me to documentation or sample code snippet to show
> how to do this?
>
> Or, explicitly, checking against these possible values is my only option?
>   

Does this help?
http://www.boost.org/doc/html/program_options/howto.html#id1420416

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe