From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-12-01T23:14:36+09:00
Subject: Re: getoptlong

Hi,

At Sun, 1 Dec 2002 21:27:47 +0900,
wybo@servalys.nl wrote:
> GetOptions('--option',\$option);
> warn "--option was set\n" if $option; 
> 
> In ruby, the first line would become:
> 
> opts=GetoptLong.new(
>   [ "--option",   "-o", GetoptLong::NO_ARGUMENT ]
> )
> 
> But I see no simple way to straightforwardly test whether --option was
> set. Is there a way? 

opts.each do |opt, arg|
  case opt
  when "--option"
    $option = true
  end
end


If you want to use optparse.rb (distributed with 1.7):

ARGV.options do |opt|
  opt.def_option("--option", "-o") {$option = true}
  opt.parse!
end

-- 
Nobu Nakada