From: Nathaniel Talbott <nathaniel@...>
Date: 2003-12-01T23:49:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Usage message in optparse.. summarize method?

On Dec 1, 2003, at 02:28, nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:

> Hi,
>
> At Mon, 1 Dec 2003 12:07:34 +0900,
> Nathaniel Talbott wrote:
>>    ARGV.options do |options|
>>      options.on('-d', '--date=DATE', String, 'specify a date'){|v| 
>> puts "Date #{v} passed"}
>
> If you really want to accept only dates, you can use Date
> instead of String here, with requiring 'optparse/date'.

Wow. Very cool.

Thanks for optparse - I've found it to be extremely useful. It makes it 
so easy to provide command-line usage information for scripts that it's 
almost criminal not to. Not to mention that it also makes it a cinch to 
process command-line options.


Nathaniel

<:((><