Painless Command Line Argument Parsing in C

https://github.com/sanjoy/CmdArgs

by thedigitalengel • 16 years ago

10 5 16 years ago

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kennu2• 16 years ago

Basically same as GNU getopt which has existed 25 years? Please use standard libraries for things like this.

Anilm3• 16 years ago

Software reuse is a great thing, but not to the point of criminalizing learning.

jhrobert• 16 years ago

"The whole concept behind this is to have a very painless way to parse command line arguments, possibly by losing some flexibility."

Is "GNU getopt" painless? I suspect it depends on your definition of "pain", a pro/cons section would have clarified the rationnals for not using "getopt".

For sure it would be nice if people added a "prior art" comment whenever they reinvent the wheel.

kennu2• 16 years ago

I didn't see any mention of getopt in the readme, so I figured the author was perhaps just unaware of it. I don't consider getopt particularly painful myself, especially since you can use it on Unix-like plaforms out-of-the-box.

I hope the people downvoting my original comment do know what getopt is and that nearly all command line tools on e.g. Linux use it.

robyates• 16 years ago

It looks similar to args4j in Java: http://www.whenbrainsfly.com/2009/05/args4j-is-magic/

Painless Command Line Argument Parsing in C

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