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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.