Documentation lacks topics on escaping and option/value assignment operators

[ericnewton76]

Issue by xyzzer
Tuesday Jan 19, 2016 at 07:10 GMT
Originally opened as gsscoder/commandline#280

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Hi,

Thanks for the library, it seems quite well thought out!

I've stumbled on two problems though:

1. I first tried passing option values like this:

   myApp.exe -o:123

   This yielded option "o" value of ":123".
   I then found some text in the wiki that suggests you can just do -o123 or -o=123 or -o 123 which I'll have to play with. Are these the only options supported? Is there a way to configure a colon as an assignment operator?

2. Then I stumbled on passing in paths that might have spaces in them. I'm still working on figuring it out, but I had some problem when first trying it with this syntax:

   myApp-exe -f"C:\My Folder\My File.txt"

It would help to explain these topics a bit better.

[ericnewton76]

Comment by nemec
Tuesday Jan 19, 2016 at 21:34 GMT

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Hi Filip,

1. Nope, as the wiki says it accepts the getopt style of assignment, which is either no space, an equals, or a space. It isn't configurable but you're right, it should be spelled out in the wiki.
2. You will need to put a space between -f and the string -- .Net does the quote parsing for the app but won't parse the quote unless it's the first character.