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From: "Emmanuel Bourg (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] [Commented] (CLI-219) Allow to specify options with a single
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Emmanuel Bourg commented on CLI-219:
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Thank you for the patch Gilles. Looking at your command line example I'm not convinced it's a good idea. If you were to allow several files arguments for an option I think the syntax you proposed would cause several problems:

{code}-b "file1  file2  file3" arg1 arg2{code}

- people will most likely forget to put the quotes
- what if the file names also contain a space ?

I would rather recommend the following syntax:

{code}-b file1 -b file2 -b file3 arg1 arg2{code}

or this one using a non space separator:

{code}-b file1;file2;file3 arg1 arg2{code}

For the latter you can either declare the option with a value separator, or split the value manually.


> Allow to specify options with a single argument that will be split into multiple arguments
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CLI-219
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLI-219
>             Project: Commons CLI
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: CLI-1.x
>    Affects Versions: 1.2
>            Reporter: Gilles
>              Labels: features
>             Fix For: 1.3
>
>         Attachments: svn_diff.txt
>
>
> I've explained the issue in that thread:
>   http://www.mail-archive.com/user@commons.apache.org/msg06483.html
> As hinted there, a solution might be to allow that the (single) argument of an "Option" (cf. "hasArg()") be split according to a user-defined regexp pattern. If given a split pattern, the code would convert a single-arg "Option" into a multiple-args one (where the arguments are the result of splitting the single-arg string with the pattern).

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