From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-05-16T23:45:52+09:00
Subject: Re: GetoptLong Accessing the values with out looping

On Tue, 16 May 2006, Berger, Daniel wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Paul D. Kraus [mailto:paul.kraus@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 8:13 AM
>> To: ruby-talk ML
>> Subject: Re: GetoptLong Accessing the values with out looping
>>
>>
>>>
>>>        opts = {} and gl.each{|k,v| opts[k.delete('-')] = v}
>>>
>> Makes perfect sense in this example you are still looping
>> through the options. All though this is better on the eyes.
>>
>> I was hoping that the instance of getoptlong had some kind of
>> method to get the value of one of the command line options.
>>
>> Paul
>
> Yes, it sucks.  That's why I wrote the 'getopt' package.
>
> gem install getopt :)
>
> require 'getopt/long'
> include Getopt
>
> opts = Getopt::Long.new(['-d', '--date', REQUIRED])
>
> if opts['d']
>   # ...
> end
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan

nice dan.  i've been using optparse for all my stuff but it's usage is a bit
obtuse.  perhaps i'll switch... does it support parsing arbitrary arrays or
only ARGV?

regards.

-a
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