From: William Morgan <wmorgan-ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2010-01-27T03:08:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Build a hash from ARGV, the Ruby way

Reformatted excerpts from Toby Rodwell's message of 2010-01-25:
> I suspect/hope there is a very simple "Ruby way" to do this, but I got
> stuck thinking how to look ahead when iterating through ARGV.  I've
> got a bodged method of just taking pairs eg -a 1 -b 0 -c 3 etc, but it
> would be nice to it properly.  Any suggestions?  All help appreciated!

You can start doing something simple with ARGV.each_slice(2), but any
kind of error checking quickly gets complicated. Trollop will do this
exact thing for you (turn ARGV into a hash with error checking).
-- 
William <wmorgan-ruby-talk@masanjin.net>