From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2006-03-08T00:03:10+09:00
Subject: Re: getoptlong question

>
2006/3/7, Matt Rose <mattrose@folkwolf.net>:
>
> This has been bugging me for weeks now, intermittently.
>
> By all accounts I've read, this getoptlong code should work
>
> require 'getoptlong'
>
> opts = GetoptLong.new(
>                          ["--devel","-d",GetoptLong::NO_ARGUMENT],
>                          ["--getpass","-g",GetoptLong::NO_ARGUMENT],
>                          ["--debug","-D",GetoptLong::NO_ARGUMENT],
>                          ["--verbose","-V",GetoptLong::NO_ARGUMENT]
>                    )
>
> server = 'http://192.168.10.16/'
> verbose = false
> opts.each { |o,a| p o }
> opts.each { |o,a|
>          case o
>                  when '--devel'
>                         server = 'http://192.168.20.56/'
>                  when '--getpass'
>                          puts "this option does nothing"
>                  when '--debug': $DEBUG = true
>                  when '--verbose': verbose = true
>          end
> }
> p server
> p $DEBUG
> p verbose
>
> This is the output I expect when I run it:
>
> "--devel"
> "--debug"
> "--verbose"
> "http://192.168.20.56/"
> true
> true
>
> This is the output I get:
>
> "--devel"
> "--debug"
> "--verbose"
> "http://192.168.10.16/"
> false
> false
>
> What am I missing?

Insert a "p a" in the second opts.each block and see what happens. :-)

Kind regards

robert


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