From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-03-21T04:17:21+09:00
Subject: Re: I need some help with OptionsParser

On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, bcorrigan78@gmail.com wrote:

> Hey..  Well, I was..  There really must be something up here.
>
> Code: (test.rb)
> require 'optparse'
> opts = OptionParser.new
> opts.on("-s", "--size VAL", "Something to describe size") {|s| puts
> "Size is: #{s}"}
> opts.parse!   # the important part...
>
> Result:
> C:\temp>ruby -- test.rb -s "Very Big"
                ^^
                ^^
                ^^

you are passing '-s' to ruby, not test.rb.  the '--' tells ruby to stop
processing command line options.

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