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examples/common/cmdline.cpp

This example is documented in Command Line Parser tutorial.

/***************************************************************************
* examples/common/cmdline.cpp
*
* Part of the STXXL. See http://stxxl.sourceforge.net
*
* Copyright (C) 2013 Timo Bingmann <[email protected]>
*
* Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
* (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at
* http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
**************************************************************************/
// [example]
#include <stxxl/cmdline>
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
// add description and author
cp.set_description("This may some day be a useful program, which solves "
"many serious problems of the real world and achives "
"global peace.");
cp.set_author("Timo Bingmann <[email protected]>");
// add an unsigned integer option --rounds <N>
unsigned int rounds = 0;
cp.add_uint('r', "rounds", "N", "Run N rounds of the experiment.", rounds);
// add a byte size argument which the user can enter like '1gi'
stxxl::uint64 a_size = 0;
cp.add_bytes('s', "size", "Number of bytes to process.", a_size);
// add a required parameter
std::string a_filename;
cp.add_param_string("filename", "A filename to process", a_filename);
// process command line
if (!cp.process(argc, argv))
return -1; // some error occurred and help was always written to user.
std::cout << "Command line parsed okay." << std::endl;
// output for debugging
// do something useful
}
// [example]