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Arguments - Assists with command line argument processing

Arguments is a small C++ class to handle command line arguments. Versions exist for C++ and Java. It is a simpler alternative to getopts().

Arguments takes the traditional argc and argv which are passed to main() and puts them into an ordered data structure. It lets you ask if specific arguments were passed to your program, and automatically extract the values of those arguments into any object type that support the istream>> operator. (e.g. bool, char, int, float, double, std::string, etc).

This is a better wasy of organizing the arguments passed to your program, and is far easier to work with than trying to manually convert argv's (char*) pointers to these other types.

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Source informationhttp://www.aiksaurus.com/~jared/arguments/dist/
Version 11 (stable) released on 2003-03-26
Licensed under GPL.
This is not a GNU package.

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License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2002-08-07
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