From: Steve Litt <slitt@...>
Date: 2005-12-29T00:20:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Command-line option parsing

On Wednesday 28 December 2005 08:37 am, Robert Klemme wrote:
> Eric J. Roode <sdn.girths00869@zoemail.net> wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> >    I'm new to ruby (from Perl).  I notice there are several
> > command-line options parsing modules.  The two that stuck out were
> > GetoptLong and OptionsParser.  GetoptLong suffers from being "the
> > same old Getopt". OptionsParser claims to be "more advanced and more
> > ruby-like", but has extremely poor documentation.
> >
> >    Are these the best two modules out there?  Is there an emerging
> > "standard" module? (In Perl, Getopt::Long is by far the most
> > commonly-used module).
>
> I used to use GetopLong in the beginning but switched to OptionParser.
> Agreee, the documentation could be better but if you look carefully at the
> example given in RDoc you get pretty much everything you need.  I'm not
> sure about a standard parser but my impression was that OptionParser is
> more widely used.  But I may be wrong here.
>
> Kind regards
>
>     robert

Does OptionParser come with standard Ruby?

SteveT
 
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