pattern/replacement starting with dashes

[s-d-m]

Hi,

Is there a way to have a pattern or replacement starting with dashes? Right now ruplacer think of them as invalid options.
Would it be possible to add "explicit" options? Something like ruplacer <-p|--pattern> --my-pattern-starting-with-double-dashes <-r|--replacement> -my-replacement-with-only-one-dash-at-the-beginning ?

[dmerejkowsky]

Hello,

You need to use -- to separate options for arguments starting with dashes.

ruplacer -- --foo-option --bar-option
Patching ./toto.txt
-- this is --foo-option
++ this is --bar-option

By the way, this is pretty standard behavior, lots of command line tools support this special syntax.

Hope this helps!

[s-d-m]

Indeed,

Thanks for the quick answer.
May I suggest to change the help message from

USAGE:
    ruplacer [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] <pattern> <replacement> [--] [path]

to

USAGE:
    ruplacer [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] [--] <pattern> <replacement> [path]

?

And maybe add an example using pattern starting/replacement with dash
in the examples section too?

[dmerejkowsky]

Sure thing! See #55

[dmerejkowsky]

Did not manage to change the help message, but that's better than nothing. Let's close this.