Hello Michael: If you want no positional options to be allowed you can refer to this answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3858251/parsing-positional-arguments/3859... To parse a multi-token value correctly you should call special member function of a PO option. PO option is of type boost::program_options::typed_value<T>, it has a member function multitoken(). multitoken() should be called before adding an option to PO set of functions. Value type should be std::vector<T> then. Regards, Dmitriy Matison. On 29 May 2013 14:24, Michael Powell wrote:

Hello,

I want to parse std::string, perhaps into a vector<string>, but I do not want the command line argument to be positional in nature (i.e. like the examples demonstrate), because there may be a handful of parameters I need to capture into string or vector<string>.

I've been able to parse integral types like int, even vector<int>, but haven't had much success with string. Possible or is this a program options "feature" and/or bug?

Regards,

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