This sample alters the behavior of Ookii.CommandLine to be more like the POSIX conventions for command line arguments. To do this, it enables the alternate long/short parsing mode, uses a name transformation to make all the argument names lower case with dashes between the words, and uses case-sensitive argument names.
This sample uses the same arguments as the parser Sample, so see that sample's source for more details about each argument.
In long/short mode, each argument can have a long name, using the -- prefix, and a one-character
short name, using the - prefix (and / on Windows). The prefixes can be customized if desired.
When in this mode, the default usage help has a slightly different format to accommodate the short names.
Sample command line application using long/short parsing mode. The application parses the command
line and prints the results, but otherwise does nothing and none of the arguments are actually used
for anything.
Usage: LongShort [--source] <string> [--destination] <string> [[--operation-index] <number>]
[--count <number>] [--date <date-time>] [--day <day-of-week>] [--help] [--process] [--value
<string>...] [--verbose] [--version]
-s, --source <string>
The source data.
-d, --destination <string>
The destination data.
--operation-index <number>
The operation's index. Default value: 1.
-c, --count <number>
Provides the count for something to the application.
-D, --date <date-time>
Provides a date to the application.
--day <day-of-week>
This is an argument using an enumeration type. Possible values: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
-?, --help [<boolean>] (-h)
Displays this help message.
-p, --process [<boolean>]
Does the processing.
--value <string>
This is an example of a multi-value argument, which can be repeated multiple times to
set more than one value.
-v, --verbose [<boolean>]
Print verbose information; this is an example of a switch argument.
--version [<boolean>]
Displays version information.
Note that there is both a -d and a -D argument, possible due to the use of case-sensitive
argument names.
Long/short mode allows you to combine switches with short names, so running LongShort -vp sets
both Verbose and Process to true.