From: Paul van Delst <Paul.vanDelst@...>
Date: 2007-01-11T04:45:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Command Line Argument Processing

Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> robertlaferla@comcast.net wrote:
>> What is everyone using (other than manually) to process command line
>> arguments?  I have looked at optparse (OptionParser) but it is not
>> well documented.  Is there something better?  Or is there better
>> documentation for optparse out there?
> 
> OptionParser is very good, and generates reasonably nice on-line help.
> 
> You might want to look at http://rubyforge.org/projects/optionparser/ as 
> well (I haven't used it, but some people seem to like it).
> 
> If you want to use something very simple that you can paste into a 
> script and hack up as you see fit, there is argos:
> 
> http://redshift.sourceforge.net/argos.rb

Does anyone use getoptlong? Seems powerful and simple ATST.

http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/getoptlong/rdoc/classes/GetoptLong.html

cheers,

paulv

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