From: Jonathan Paisley <jp-www@...>
Date: 2005-03-15T23:02:21+09:00
Subject: Re: OptionParser question

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 10:48:36 +0900, Jos Backus wrote:

> OptionParser is still a mystery to me. In the example below, how do I
> distinguish between a -c flag without an argument (which is a fatal syntax
> error) and no -c flag at all? In both cases client equals nil. There doesn't
> seem to be a way to intercept the `missing argument' message, or if there is,
> I can't seem to find it in the documentation :-/

opt.parse! returns the remaining non-option arguments (which is in fact
just ARGV at this stage, with options removed), or nil upon failure. This
is propagated to the return value of ARGV.options. A common idiom seems to
be:

  ARGV.options do |opt|
    ...
    ...
    opt.parse!
  end or exit 1
  #   ^^^^^^^^^