From: Duane Johnson <duane.johnson@...>
Date: 2007-03-22T07:50:23+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Getopt::Declare 1.23

Neat-o.  Thanks, gga.  I learned something new from your example code  
too... that having a closing paren around the start of a heredoc  
string is OK.  Cool!

Duane Johnson
http://blog.inquirylabs.com/

On Mar 21, 2007, at 2:50 PM, gga wrote:

> This is mainly a bug fix release.
>
> What's Getopt::Declare?
>
> It is yet another command-line parser, that uses regular expressions
> in its engine.  It is designed to be extremely easy to use, but very
> powerful.
>
> Example:
>
>  require "Getopt/Declare"
>  args = Getopt::Declare.new(<<'EOF')
>
>  -q, --quiet                 quiet
>  -f, --files <files:if>...   input files
>  -n, --number  <num:n>       a float number
>  -i, --integer <num:i>       an integer number
>
>  EOF
>
>  p args['-q']
>  p args['-f']
>  p args.unused
>
>
> For more information:
>
> http://getoptdeclare.rubyforge.org/
>
>
> What's new:
>
> 1.23 - * Added all samples as Ruby unit tests, which lead to the
> discovery
> 	 of some bugs.
>        * Fixed silly bug with foundid that would make some parsing not
> 	 work (required parameters).
>        * Fixed a silly bug when parsing from a string file, which
> would
>          modify the string in place
>        * Fixed a bug in that would make it not parse Rh+ and Rh- in
> 	 cmdline_pvttype demo and other potential regexes.
>        * Removed 3 warnings from parsing multiple times.
>        * Fixed a bug with cluster: singles not working.
>        * Fixed a stack trace bug with optional single text arguments.
>        * Improved handling of optional integer/float arguments,
> leaving
> 	 them as nil instead of 0 as before.
>        * Added 'used' function to allow returning the flags that are
> used.
>        * Made CSV demo work again, albeit I am not too happy with the
> regex.
>
>