From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2007-12-04T17:02:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby idiom equivalent to Perl "$asdf = $ARGV[0] || die 'arg required'"?]

2007/12/4, Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>:
> Something like this, perhaps?
>
>     a = ARGV[0] || fail('arg required')

Here's some more

a = ARGV.shift or raise "arg required"
a = ARGV.shift or raise ArgumentError, "arg required"

For more complex cmd line parsing I'd use OptionParser.

Kind regards

robert

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