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Re: Determine actually given command line arguments

Date 2013-05-15 09:16 -0500
From Wayne Werner <wayne@waynewerner.com>
Subject Re: Determine actually given command line arguments
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On Wed, 15 May 2013, Henry Leyh wrote:
> Yes, I was trying that and it sort of works with strings if I use something 
> sufficiently improbable like "__UNSELECTED__" as default.  But it gets 
> difficult with boolean or even number arguments where you just may not have 
> valid "improbable" defaults.  You could now say, so what, it's the default 
> anyway.  But in my program I would like to distinguish between given and not 
> given arguments rather than between default and non-default.

Have you looked into docopt? It's pretty awesome, and might really help in 
this case.

HTH,
-W

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Determine actually given command line arguments Henry Leyh <henry.leyh@ipp.mpg.de> - 2013-05-15 08:34 +0200
  Re: Determine actually given command line arguments "Colin J. Williams" <cjw@ncf.ca> - 2013-05-15 08:03 -0400
    Re: Determine actually given command line arguments Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2013-05-15 15:51 +0300
  Re: Determine actually given command line arguments Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-05-15 08:24 -0400
    Re: Determine actually given command line arguments Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-05-15 08:51 -0400
    Re: Determine actually given command line arguments Henry Leyh <henry.leyh@ipp.mpg.de> - 2013-05-15 14:52 +0200
      Re: Determine actually given command line arguments Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2013-05-15 14:00 +0100
        Re: Determine actually given command line arguments Henry Leyh <henry.leyh@ipp.mpg.de> - 2013-05-15 15:50 +0200
          Re: Determine actually given command line arguments Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2013-05-15 09:08 -0500
            Re: Determine actually given command line arguments Henry Leyh <henry.leyh@ipp.mpg.de> - 2013-05-15 16:39 +0200
              Re: Determine actually given command line arguments Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2013-05-15 09:51 -0500
          Re: Determine actually given command line arguments Wayne Werner <wayne@waynewerner.com> - 2013-05-15 09:16 -0500
      Re: Determine actually given command line arguments roy@panix.com (Roy Smith) - 2013-05-15 11:29 -0400
        Re: Determine actually given command line arguments Henry Leyh <henry.leyh@ipp.mpg.de> - 2013-05-16 07:43 +0200
          Re: Determine actually given command line arguments Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2013-05-16 09:08 +0300
            Re: Determine actually given command line arguments Henry Leyh <henry.leyh@ipp.mpg.de> - 2013-05-16 09:29 +0200

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