C# CmdLineHelper.cs Command line Parser

A "no frills" 1 class-only, C# .NET command line parser with support for - and / args, switches only, and Name : Values

• Simple (no depends)

• Robust (many support methods)

• Self contained (Simply drop into your project and call it below)

• How to use

  // Utilizes Environment.CommandLine for its parsing
  CmdLineHelper cmdline = new CmdLineHelper();
  
   // OR use your own.
  CmdLineHelper cmdline2 = new CmdLineHelper("some custom command line");
  
  
  // From above, the class creates an accessible list of args, accessible like so...
  // List<CmdArg> Args
  foreach(CmdArg in cmdline.Args) { //... }
  
  
  // Switch only
  bool noExit = cmdline.WasArgSupplied("-noexit");
  
  
  // Multiple switch aliases
  if(cmdline.WasArgSupplied(new string[] {"-con", "-console", "-showConsole"}))
  {
  	showConsole = true;
  }
  
  
  // Retreive the value of this -num argument name. Ex: -num 5, will return "5"
  string numberOfTimes = cmdline.GetArgValue("-num")
  
  
  // Get a list of which argument name swtotcjes were supplied
  List<string> swSpecial = cmdline.GetAllArgNamesSupplied(string[] SW_SPECIAL_ARG_NAMES = { "-hide", "-min", "-max" });
  
  
  // Full command line if desired (Environment.CommandLine less the current .exe path)
  string all = CmdLineHelper.SupportMethods.CurrentArgsStrWithoutExe
  
  // Split out the commandline and arguments into 2 separate strings:
  string fileName = "";
  string cmdLineBuilt = "";
  CmdLineHelper.SupportMethods.SplitCommandLineInto(runCommand, out fileName, out cmdLineBuilt);
   
  
  // Traditional CommandLineToArgvW API call with some features to preserve quotes or not
  string[] args = CmdLineHelper.SupportMethods.CommandLineToArgs(Environment.CommandLine)
  

• Motivation to publically upload: @FuzzySec, a great security research :D. He needed something .NET 3.5 compat, and simple to integrate

• Motivation to create: I like string manipulation, and necessity is the mother of invention. Didn't find any self-contained classes out there when needing this in 2015, so I started from the ground up, and slowly improved here and there over the years.