I use boost::program_options
to provide command line parsing interface to my application. I would like to configure it to parse the options,
using namespace boost::program_options;
options_description desc("Allowed options");
desc.add_options()
("help,h", "produce help message")
("version,v", "print the version number")
("include-path,I", value< vector<string> >(), "include path")
("input-file,i", value<string>(), "input file");
positional_options_description p;
p.add("input-file", 1);
variables_map vm;
parsed_options parsed = command_line_parser(ac, av).
options(desc).positional(p).run();
store(parsed, vm);
notify(vm);
I would like to configure it so that every token after the last switch is returned in a form of vector. I have tried using collect_unrecognized
as per example given in Boost documentation but I have ran into some problems because I am also using positional arguments for the input file.
Basically I would like to do it like this. If I have:
./program -i "inputfile.abc" argument1 argument2 argument3
I would like it to store inputfile.abc
in the input-file
value and return a vector<string>
of argument1
, argument2
and argument3
as unsolicited arguments.
I would however also like to be able to have a positional argument, so that
./program "inputfile.abc" argument1 argument2 argument3
would give me the same result.
I am sorry if this has already been asked and thank you for help.
I came up with code that does the trick, but it is a slight workaround. That is, I dropped the positional clause and resorted to taking the first argument of the unrecognized ones. It seems to be working fine, but it is not very flexible.
using namespace boost::program_options;
options_description desc("Allowed options");
desc.add_options()
("help,h", "produce help message")
("version,v", "print the version number")
("include-path,I", value< vector<string> >(), "include path")
("input-file,i", value<string>(), "input file")
;
variables_map vm;
vector<string> additionalParameters;
parsed_options parsed = command_line_parser(ac, av).
options(desc).allow_unregistered().run();
store(parsed, vm);
additionalParameters = collect_unrecognized(parsed.options,
include_positional);
notify(vm);
if (!vm.count("input-file"))
if (additionalParameters.empty())
{
cerr << "error: No input file specified\n";
return EXIT_FAILURE;
}
else
{
inputFileName = additionalParameters[0];
additionalParameters.erase(additionalParameters.begin());
}
else
inputFileName = vm["input-file"].as<string>();