Re: Lapp - a simple framework for command-line parsing

[Andrew Wilson <agrwagrw@...>]

Steve this also looks like a great example of a nice little GEM! AW

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Andrew Wilson <agrwagrw@gmail.com> wrote:
> Little tweak, lapp.c in line 248 -
>
>                    if parmstr:find('^%a[^%s]+') then
>                        -- a short option followed by a non space?
> (exception for AW ;))
>
> So space or no space works with short options on either numbers or strings.
>
> Cheers
> AW
>
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Andrew Wilson <agrwagrw@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Even better. Great example of Lua's simple, small, powerful philosophy. Andrew
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 7:22 AM, steve donovan
>> <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Andrew Wilson <agrwagrw@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Steve, Nice little module, some behaviors a little unexpected? If no
>>>> parameters entered at all I'd expect help to be displayed. Also expect
>>>> numbers to parse with or without space. Great idea, good fit with Lua.
>>>
>>> There's a fixed-up version addressing these issues.
>>>
>>> Plus some extra features I couldn't resist, like explict range
>>> constraints and vararg parameters.
>>>
>>> There was a horrendous bug where the damned thing was interpreting
>>> '-2' as a flag ;)
>>>
>>> http://lua-users.org/wiki/LappFramework
>>>
>>> steve d.
>>>
>>
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