Hi, I believe the example found in example/response_file.cpp and referenced in the documentation has a bug. In the following code fragment a temporary string object is passed as the first argument to the tokenizer constructor. This string is destroyed before the iteration over the tokens start. /Peter if (vm.count("response-file")) { // Load the file and tokenize it ifstream ifs(vm["response-file"].as<string>().c_str()); if (!ifs) { cout << "Could not open the response file\n"; return 1; } // Read the whole file into a string stringstream ss; ss << ifs.rdbuf(); // Split the file content char_separator<char> sep(" \n\r"); tokenizer<char_separator<char> > tok(ss.str(), sep); vector<string> args; copy(tok.begin(), tok.end(), back_inserter(args)); // Parse the file and store the options store(command_line_parser(args).options(desc).run(), vm); }