OCTARGS - Argument Parsing Library
OCTARGS is a C++ library for parsing command line arguments.
- Header-only library.
- Requires C++11.
- Released under MIT license.
Features supported:
- Arguments without values (e.g. "--verbose").
- Arguments with values (e.g. "--level=9", "--jobs 9").
- Exclusive arguments (e.g. "--help").
- Positional arguments (e.g. "cat file1.txt file2.txt").
- Short and long names (e.g. "-j", "--jobs", "--parallel-jobs").
- Subparsers (e.g. "git add ", "git init ").
- Default values
- Limiting allowed values
- Converting values to a requested type (with checking)
- Storing converted values in object variables automatically (with checking and automatic type detection).
- Automatic usage documentation.
- Support for char and wchar_t character types (and more with a limited effort).
Documentation
Project documentation is generated using Doxygen and hosted on GitHub pages.
Examples
Short code snippets showing general concepts are available in the documentation. For a more complicated examples take a look into Examples folder.