std.getopt: checking if an option has been passed
Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-learn
digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Fri Aug 7 04:44:02 PDT 2015
On Friday, 7 August 2015 at 11:40:54 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> What's the best way to check if an (optional) argument has been
> passed? One way is to use a default value, but I wonder if
> there is a tidier approach
>
> Thanks.
>
> (For startDate and endDate below)
>
> struct NanoClientOptions
> {
> string nanoUrl="tcp://127.0.0.1:9999";
> string[] tickers;
> DateTime startDate=DateTime(1,1,1);
> DateTime endDate=DateTime(9999,1,1);
> }
>
> auto helpInformation = getopt(
> args,
> "nanoUrl", "Address of kaleidic data nanoserver eg
> tcp://127.0.0.1:9999", &options.nanoUrl,
> std.getopt.config.required, "ticker|t", "Tickers to
> download data for", &options.tickers,
> "startDate|s", "Start Date", &options.startDate,
> "endDate|e", "End Date", &options.endDate
> );
>
> Laeeth
I guess answer is simple: std.getopt doesn't handle DateTimes, so
I have to use a callback, in which case I can just track whether
it's been passed myself.
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