cmdlineoptions/README.md

Ever thought about learning a new programming language, doing your first try with a command line program, and first of all you want to have some command line options?
Maybe you have just an idea to do some difficult task in a small command line program, and of course you need options...

... but most of the time you have to reinvent the wheel?!

Why not using a small and easy library, which does exactly THAT task? Which gives you the possibility to fully concentrate on the original task to be done and developed?



This is a goal of this project.


The main goals of this project are a personal ones:
- to have fun programming similiar behaving code in different languages
- learning new programming languages through adding them to this repository


cmdlineoptions
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A library for some languages handling commandline options in the dashed fashion.

Currently available as:
- java
  - Currently available just as a Java class, within an eclipse project. :)
- C
  - static/shared library 
- (C++ maybe coming soon...)
- maybe other languages in the future?

It supports single dashed options like "-h", double dashed options "--help" and additional option alternatives.
It has got automatic help handling of all configured options with "-h", "--help" and "-?".

In the end you can define your own commandline parameter style, because you define the option name yourself like 'CmdOptions.create("-myoption");' or '...create("+anotheropt")', etc.

The library - or better, the libraries - are planned to be consistent over all languages, so you are able to define and check and retrieve options with similar function calls.

Current work and future plans
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Working on:
- ~~JUnit tests~~
- ~~Java: better errorhandling~~
- ~~Java: Examples~~
- ~~C version~~
- Getting started
- Unit tests
- ~~Some java improvements~~
  - get the improvments into the C version

Future plans:
 - C++ class version
 - haskell
 - ...