[fpc-pascal] CLI argument parsers

[Benito van der Zander]

I wrote one, too: http://benibela.de/sources_en.html#rcmdline

Supports --linux=style and /windows style, and ' and " quotes



On 14.01.2019 10:49, Yann Mérignac wrote:
> You can also try this: http://yann.merignac.free.fr/unit-cmdline.html 
> It's a command line parser I wrote when I needed it a few years ago. I 
> was inspired by these 2 articles: - 
> https://www.adacore.com/gems/gem-138-gnatcoll.command-line - 
> https://www.adacore.com/gems/gem-139-master-the-command-line-part-2
>
> Le lun. 14 janv. 2019 à 09:41, Michael Van Canneyt 
> <michael at freepascal.org <mailto:michael at freepascal.org>> a écrit :
>
>
>
>     On Mon, 14 Jan 2019, Martok wrote:
>
>     > I was 100% expecting that sort of answer.
>
>     My invitation to suggest improvements, you mean ?
>
>     I meant it: you're welcome to suggest improvements.
>
>     If you implement something like argpars and it can be used as
>     backend for
>     TCustomApplication, I'm willing to rework TCustomApplication to
>     use it.
>     This way we keep backwards compatibility and offer the possibility
>     to extend
>     it.
>
>     I'm not blind to the shortcomings of TCustomApplication argument
>     parsing.
>     It fully handles the unix '-a' '--aaa' scheme of doing things, but
>     currently
>     does not handle options in command form
>     prog --globalopts command [--commandopts] args
>
>     So, if you can offer something to keep current functionality and
>     allow this
>     as well: be my guest...
>
>     But e.g. the geptops way, which basically forces you to use a
>     while loop is
>     really not acceptable, which is why the TCustomApplication
>     interface is what
>     it is today.
>
>     Michael.
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