From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2009-02-01T05:40:15+09:00
Subject: Re: OptParse bug?

Roger Pack wrote:
> With this file:
> 
> C:\dev\thesis_p2pwebcode\src>cat example.rb
> require 'optparse'
> 
>    OptionParser.new do |opts|
> 
>     opts.on('-p', '--do_multiples_with_variant=NAME', 'multiples variant
> ex: ') do |name|
>     end
>    end.parse!
> 
> 
> I get the following output:
> Usage: example [options]
>     -p=NAME                          multiples variant ex:
>         --do_multiples_with_variant
> 
> 
> however it doesn't actually accept -p=NAME
> it accepts -pNAME
> 
> Anybody know if this is expected?
> Thanks!
> -=r

Seems to be a unix standard:

http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch10s05.html

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