From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2007-01-11T06:05:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Command Line Argument Processing


robertlafe...@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?

Fed up with some quirks of getoptlong, and confused by optparse, I
wrote (and use) my own library called "getopt".  It includes two
classes - Getopt::Std and Getopt::Long.  The former is nearly identical
to the Perl equivalent, while the latter is more or less a refactored
version of getoptlong.

http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/getopt/

Regards,

Dan