- Display mutually exclusive arguments as ``[[-a]|[-b]]`` in usage
- Add ... trailer to repeatable arguments in usage: ``[-x]...``
- Implement the following enhancements:
By default usage is reported on a single line.
The ``ArgumentParser::set_usage_max_line_width(width)`` method can be used
to display the usage() on multiple lines, by defining the maximum line width.
It can be combined with a call to ``ArgumentParser::set_usage_break_on_mutex()``
to ask grouped mutually exclusive arguments to be displayed on a separate line.
``ArgumentParser::add_usage_newline()`` can also be used to force the next
argument to be displayed on a new line in the usage output.
The following snippet
```cpp
argparse::ArgumentParser program("program");
program.set_usage_max_line_width(80);
program.set_usage_break_on_mutex();
program.add_argument("--quite-long-option-name").flag();
auto &group = program.add_mutually_exclusive_group();
group.add_argument("-a").flag();
group.add_argument("-b").flag();
program.add_argument("-c").flag();
program.add_argument("--another-one").flag();
program.add_argument("-d").flag();
program.add_argument("--yet-another-long-one").flag();
program.add_argument("--will-go-on-new-line").flag();
program.add_usage_newline();
program.add_argument("--new-line").flag();
std::cout << program.usage() << std::endl;
```
will display:
```console
Usage: program [--help] [--version] [--quite-long-option-name]
[[-a]|[-b]]
[-c] [--another-one] [-d] [--yet-another-long-one]
[--will-go-on-new-line]
[--new-line]
```
Furthermore arguments can be separated into several groups by calling
``ArgumentParser::add_group(group_name)``. Only optional arguments should
be specified after the first call to add_group().
```cpp
argparse::ArgumentParser program("program");
program.set_usage_max_line_width(80);
program.add_argument("-a").flag().help("help_a");
program.add_group("Advanced options");
program.add_argument("-b").flag().help("help_b");
```
will display:
```console
Usage: program [--help] [--version] [-a]
Advanced options:
[-b]
```
It is possible to bind arguments to a variable storing their value, as an
alternative to explicitly calling ``program.get<T>(arg_name)`` or ``program[arg_name]``
This is currently implementeted for variables of type ``bool`` (this also
implicitly calls ``flag()``), ``int``, ``double``, ``std::string`` and
``std::vector<std::string>``. If the argument is not specified in the command
line, the default value (if set) is set into the variable.
```cpp
bool flagvar = false;
program.add_argument("--flagvar").store_into(flagvar);
int intvar = 0;
program.add_argument("--intvar").store_into(intvar);
double doublevar = 0;
program.add_argument("--doublevar").store_into(doublevar);
std::string strvar;
program.add_argument("--strvar").store_into(strvar);
std::vector<std::string> strvar_repeated;
program.add_argument("--strvar-repeated").append().store_into(strvar_repeated);
std::vector<std::string> strvar_multi_valued;
program.add_argument("--strvar-multi-valued").nargs(2).store_into(strvar_multi_valued);
```
It is sometimes desirable to offer an alias for an argument, but without it
appearing it in the usage. For example, to phase out a deprecated wording of
an argument while not breaking backwards compatible. This can be done with
the ``ArgumentParser::add_hidden_alias_for()` method.
```cpp
argparse::ArgumentParser program("test");
auto &arg = program.add_argument("--suppress").flag();
program.add_hidden_alias_for(arg, "--supress"); // old misspelled alias
```
Only those places in the README where an error is explicitly found in the
main function have been updated. Other uses of exit are left untouched as
there is not enough context to know if return will work in that location.
Signed-off-by: Sean Robinson <sean.robinson@scottsdalecc.edu>
Allows users to opt-out of std::exit call in default arguments without
needing to replace with new --help and --version arguments.
Signed-off-by: Sean Robinson <sean.robinson@scottsdalecc.edu>
This replaces the verbiage copied from the Python argparse documentation
and makes the code sample more concrete. This illustrates how to avoid the
multiple help output problem reported in #165.
Closes#165
Signed-off-by: Sean Robinson <sean.robinson@scottsdalecc.edu>
This allows updating attached object properties without holding external
references to the various Argument and ArgumentParser objects.
Closes#227
Signed-off-by: Sean Robinson <sean.robinson@scottsdalecc.edu>
This allows checking whether user input was processed into the parser
or any attached subparsers.
Closes#212
Signed-off-by: Sean Robinson <sean.robinson@scottsdalecc.edu>
FetchContent_MakeAvailable was added in CMake v3.14. Also includes
end-of-line whitespace clean-ups.
Signed-off-by: Sean Robinson <sean.robinson@scottsdalecc.edu>
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