Re: Rock that parses command lines?

[Jonathan Goble <jcgoble3@...>]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 2:29 PM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> Someone posted an announcement for a rock that takes your
> help string and parses your command line. It turns 'args' into
> a keyed table, e.g. {"-d", "s=specify"} --> {d=true, s="specify"}
> and tests whether the option is documented.
>
> This seems to be something that can neatly be done in pure Lua
> but the only rock I could find is 'commandlineui' which seems to be
> heavily system-dependent: e.g. it wants me to install GDBM.
> I don't think that's the one I want.

Here's a thread from April in which multiple options were suggested:

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2016-04/threads.html#00083

Are you looking for one of those?