What's the proper way to use std.getopt?
Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
jordigh at octave.org
Mon Dec 11 23:42:01 UTC 2017
On Monday, 11 December 2017 at 21:24:41 UTC, Mike Wey wrote:
> try
> {
> auto helpInformation = getopt(
> args,
> "input|i", "The input", &input,
> "output|o", "The output", &output
> );
>
> if (helpInformation.helpWanted)
> {
> defaultGetoptPrinter("Description", helpInformation.options);
> exit(0);
> }
> }
> catch (GetOptException e)
> {
> writeln(e.msg);
> exit(1);
> }
But I would like to show the help docstring when processing the
exception. It's pretty standard behaviour. If you give a program
bad arguments, it just spits out a docstring of all options and
what each does. Can this be achieved?
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