From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-12-24T20:46:18+09:00
Subject: Re: OptionParser can't tell me about non-options on command line

On 23.12.2008 21:40, Alan Partis wrote:
> Alan Partis wrote:
>> Can someone give me a little direction?
> 
> Nevermind ... RTFM ... I just went back to pickaxe 3rd edition and found 
> that the call to OptionParser.parse returns an array containing the 
> remaining elements from ARGV that weren't processed as options.

And if you use parse! (which is what I generally do) the original array 
is adjusted appropriately.  This is important if you want to use ARGF 
for example.  My typical pattern is

OptionParser.new do |opts|
   opts.on...
end.parse! ARGV
# now ARGV has only non args left

Kind regards

	robert