From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2002-07-31T20:24:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Question about GetoptLong

On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 03:31:51PM +0900, Patrick Bennett wrote:
> >
> >
> >Then, in  the sample I gave earlier, I added the following:
> >
> >  not_handled = []
> >    opts.each do |opt, arg|
> >      case opt
> >        ## We handle log
> >        when "--log"
> >          puts "parsing: #{opt}: #{arg}"
> >        ## We pass cc
> >        else
> >          ## Unknown option  (probably need some error checking here)
> >          not_handled << [opt, arg]
> >      end#case
> >    end#each
> >
> >When your done, add the not_handled array back to ARGV
> >
> > ARGV.unshift(not_handled).flatten!
> >
> >  
> >
> Reasonable idea, but.... it still won't work since GetoptLong (wrongly 
> so IMO) raises an exception whenever it sees something it doesn't 
> understand, as well as eating the 'non-option' it just parsed - which in 

Yes. This method only works if you know all possible command options.

Jim


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