On Aug 7, 2010, at 4:22 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu <[email protected]
> wrote:
On 08/07/2010 05:55 PM, Adrian Matoga wrote:
Hi,
Is it by design that single-letter option needs to be glued to its
argument, like "-ofilename", or is it a bug in implementation?
Source:
import std.stdio;
import std.getopt;
void main(string[] args)
{
string outputFile;
getopt(args,
config.passThrough,
"o|output-filename", &outputFile);
writeln(args);
writeln("'" ~ outputFile ~ "'");
}
Results:
>test.exe -o somename
test.exe somename
''
>test.exe -osomename
test.exe
'somename'
Regards,
Adrian Matoga
It's by design in order to avoid confusion with parameterless
options. Your example works with either of these invocations:
./prog -ofilename
./prog -o=filename
./prog --o=filename
but not others.
Andrei
The prevailing convention is to allow whitespace in this case. Would
you reconsider?
Sorry for the accidental null post earlier.
-steve
