From: Joe Higham (joe_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-21 15:09:38
In addition to the ability to define a long and short (one character)
name for an option, is there a way to provide an "in-between" name?
This way an alias, acronym, or mnemonic version could be provided.
For example:
desc.add_options()
( "very-long-option-name,vlon,v", value< string >, "a long option name" )
;
and
cout << desc would print something like:
-v | -vlon | --very-long-option-name arg : a long option name
I would also not mind giving up the single-character version in favor
of a mnemonic:
desc.add_options()
( "very-long-option-name,vlon", value< string >, "a long option name" )
;
cout << desc would print:
-vlon [--very-long-option-name] arg : a long option name
-- Joe Higham / Blue Sky Studios