From: Jeff Dickens <dickens@...>
Date: 2003-12-02T03:02:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Usage message in optparse.. summarize method?

It was a very ruby nuby mistake on my part.. I cut and pasted and forgot to
remove the extra carriage returns thereby introduced.

Works fine now. Thanks.

And btw, what's your signoff "HTH" mean ?


"Nathaniel Talbott" <nathaniel@talbott.ws> wrote in message
news:805DE1AB-23AB-11D8-A25D-000A95CD7A8E@talbott.ws...
> On Nov 30, 2003, at 21:37, Jeff Dickens wrote:
>
> > I tried your script, and -h doesn't output anything.  I'm  using ruby
> > 1.8.0.
>
>    jacob:~/tmp ntalbott$ ruby -v t.rb -h
>    ruby 1.8.1 (2003-11-30) [powerpc-darwin]
>    Usage: t [options]
>        -d, --date=DATE                  specify a date
>        -q, --quiet                      be verry quiet
>        -h, --help                       Print this help information
>    jacob:~/tmp ntalbott$ cat t.rb
>    require 'optparse'
>
>    ARGV.options do |options|
>      options.on('-d', '--date=DATE', String, 'specify a date'){|v| puts
> "Date #{v} passed"}
>      options.on('-q', '--quiet', 'be verry quiet') do
>        puts "OK, I'm being very, very, very quiet... can't you tell?"
>      end
>      options.on_tail('-h', '--help', 'Print this help information'){puts
> options; exit}
>      options.parse!
>    end
>
> Not sure why you had trouble; can you give more details?
>
>
> > But I can't find diddly for examples of more advanced use of optparse.
> >  The
> > stuff at learning-ruby.com and the FIRSTSTEP.ja.html file that comes
> > with
> > the distribution are very basic.
>
> I've used http://docs.meg.nu/local-docs/ruby/optparse/optparse.html a
> lot; it has an extensive example at the end.
>
> HTH,
>
>
> Nathaniel
>
> <:((><
>
>
>