I'm writing a small application and I want user-interaction to be done via a command prompt and some simple commands.
Is there a toolkit I can use to parse the commands as they are entered by the user? In most of the programs I've looked at, each command line parser has been a custom-job done by the specific programmer. I'm just looking to see if there is a better way.
This Question has been solved and asker verified All Experts Exchange premium technology solutions are available to subscription members.
Experts Exchange has been collecting answers to technology questions since 1996…3 million and counting! If you have a question, chances are we already have your answer.
If you can't find the exact answer you're looking for, ask our exclusive community of 50,000 experts. You’ll get a personalized answer from a trusted professional.
Thousands of free tech tips, tricks, how-to’s and tutorials are available in our peer reviewed articles section. See for yourself how smart our experts are, no login required.
Save solutions to your questions, answers you’ve discovered through searching plus helpful articles in your personal knowledgebase for easy future access.
Access the answers to your technology questions today.
30-day free trial. Register in 60 seconds.
Members of the expert community talk about why the experience at Experts Exchange is different than what you will find anywhere else.
Try it out and discover for yourself.
30-day free trial. Register in 60 seconds.
Join the community of experts here and help other tech pros by answering question in your area of expertise. You can earn FREE access to all Experts Exchange's premium features and resources.
I will look into getopt to see what I can find. I'm writing a program that is like a toy database and i want to have a simple SQL dialect running on an interactive prompt. The argv array won't really do the job because the command line is one that I'm creating, not one that the operating system is giving me.
For instance on my windows machine, i start my program:
c:\dev> toydb.exe
then my program has a prompt:
toydb-SQL>
toydb-SQL>select * from mytable
output comes out here, then next empty prompt
toydb-SQL>
I guess strtok will work.. just looking for a better way. Thanks for the help so far.
This question didn't show any activity for more than 21 days. I will ask Community Support to close it unless you finalize it yourself within 7 days.
You can always request to keep this question open. But remember, experts can only help if you provide feedback to their comments.
Unless there is objection or further activity, I will suggest to accept
"DaveFutura"
comment(s) as an answer.
PLEASE DO NOT ACCEPT THIS COMMENT AS AN ANSWER!
========
Werner
Business Accounts
Answer for Membership
by: aboywongPosted on 2002-12-24 at 08:55:03ID: 7629153
You can try GNU getopt...
there are versions for c, c++ on linux/Unix
and ports for Win32, Java...etc
just go to www.google.com and search for "gnu getopt" or "win32 getopt"....