What is the "boost way" of parsing command line arguments? When I searched the archives, some user recommended spirit for this task, but this seems to heavy-weighted for me. I tried tokenizer, but a seperator for the command line is not provided. - you have to remove quotations marks (only escaped_list_separator can do this) - your have to ignore multiple tokens (only char_seperator can do this) If I write this seperator its still wouldn't provide the api I would like to see for a command line parser. I saw in the past there have been an attemp by Bill Kempf to provide a command line parser for boost but it didn't find its way into the library from reasons I don't know. So is there a recommended way to parse options I did overlook? Is a command line parser planned? Thanks for your answers, CL