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srfi-37

Description

A simple and flexible command-line option parsing facility.

Author

Anthony Carrico

Requirements

None

Documentation

See the SRFI-37 document.

This extension supports static linking.

Example

#!/usr/local/bin/csi -script
;;;; secho - display command-line arguments

(define nl 1)

(define help 
  (option 
   '(#\h "help") #f #f
   (lambda _ 
     (print "Usage: secho [OPTION] ARG ...
  -h  --help          show this text
  -n  --newline N     add N newline characters (default: 1)")
     (exit) ) ) )

(define newlines
  (option
   '(#\n "newline") #t #f
   (lambda (o n x vals)
     (set! nl (string->number x))
     vals) ) )

(for-each 
 (lambda (x) (print* x #\space))
 (reverse
  (args-fold
   (command-line-arguments)
   (list help newlines)
   (lambda (o n x vals)
     (error "unrecognized option" n) )
   cons
   '() ) ) )

(display (make-string nl #\newline))

Changelog

License

 Copyright (C) Anthony Carrico (2002). All Rights Reserved.
 This document and translations of it may be copied and furnished to
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 or assist in its implementation may be prepared, copied, published and
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 document itself may not be modified in any way, such as by removing
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 developing SRFIs in which case the procedures for copyrights defined
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