Re: Command-line parsing
Re: Command-line parsing
- Subject: Re: Command-line parsing
- From: Alastair Houghton <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:03:39 +0100
On 21 Jul 2010, at 15:54, Fritz Anderson wrote:
> I'm writing a Foundation tool that will take both options and pathname arguments.
>
> If you use NSUserDefaults, you can handle key-value options (-threshold 17) pretty easily, but this has limitations. I don't see how it can be graceful for
>
> * Two-hyphen options (chatty --verbose).
> * Non-value options (ls -a).
> * Single-item key-value options (chatty --verbose=3 -or- chatty -v3).
> * Concatenated options (ls -al)
[snip]
Maybe I'm missing something, but why not just use getopt_long()? That does the parsing for you, and matches what other programs on the system do.
Kind regards,
Alastair.
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