OCTARGS - Argument Parsing Library

OCTARGS is a C++ library for parsing command line arguments.

• Header-only library.
• Requires C++11.
• Released under MIT license.

Features supported:

• Arguments without values (e.g. "--verbose").
• Arguments with values (e.g. "--level=9", "--jobs 9").
• Exclusive arguments (e.g. "--help").
• Positional arguments (e.g. "cat file1.txt file2.txt").
• Short and long names (e.g. "-j", "--jobs", "--parallel-jobs").
• Subparsers (e.g. "git add ", "git init ").
• Default values
• Limiting allowed values
• Converting values to a requested type (with checking)
• Storing converted values in object variables automatically (with checking and automatic type detection).
• Automatic usage documentation.
• Support for char and wchar_t character types (and more with a limited effort).

Documentation

Project documentation is generated using Doxygen and hosted on GitHub pages.

Examples

Short code snippets showing general concepts are available in the documentation. For a more complicated examples take a look into Examples folder.