From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2007-03-12T15:28:28+09:00
Subject: Re: optparse, needless argument, mac os x intel

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Aaron Smith wrote:

> I've just started using optparse. I'm hitting this needless argument
> error when one of my commandline args excepts strings.. I've looked
> around on google seeing that this was a bug that was fixed at some
> point. How can I get around it?

it means that you defined are argument like this

   '--foo'

but are giving it like this on command line

   a.rb --foo=value

if you want an option to take values use

   '--foo=value'
   '--foo=this_can_be_anyword'

regards.

-a
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