From: Ritesh Agrawal <ragrawal@...>
Date: 2011-03-03T03:53:59+09:00
Subject: array of valid arguments in optparse

Hi,

I am trying to use optparse to parse an argument into an array and check
for possible values. For instance consider an argument like this

--operations count, count+, count-

I want to parse above argument into @options[:operations] = ["count",
"count+", "count-"]. But at the same time I have limited vocabulary for
possible operations and I want to check for that so that if some gives
any other operation argument, it throws an error message

@OPERATIONS=["count", "count+", "count-"]
@optparse = OptionParser.new do |opts|
              opts.banner = "Usage: ruby #{__FILE__}
--operations=METHOD1,METHOD2,METHOD3.."

              opts.on('-o OPERATIONS', '--operations a,b,c',
@OPERATIONS, Array, "Possible operations are #{@OPERATIONS.join(', ')}"
) do |hypo|
                @options[:operations]=[] unless @options[:operations]
        @options[:operations] << hypo.to_s.strip.downcase()
        @options[:operations] = @options[:operations].uniq
              end
end
@optparse.parse!

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