Hi, This is a feature request for the program_options library. A clean and extensible design for my code stipulates that it will be best to pass the user input (command line / config file) around to different modules which then extract the relevant options using the program_options library. This will mean neglecting all options that are irrelevant to the current module. However, it appears that this is possible only from the command line and not from the config file. Ideally, it will be great if the api for parsing config files mirrors what exists for the command line. That would mean a basic_config_file_parser class with chainable allow_unregistered() and collect_unrecognized() methods for the config file parsing. Some searching shows that there have been a couple of similar requests on this list: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.user/25035 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.user/24398 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.user/24398 and on the developers' list: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/150415 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/86380 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/150415 It also appears that a issue ticket was opened on sourceforge: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/145941 I am wondering if there are any plans to add support for this soon. If not, any thoughts from the library developers or other users on how they think its best to do-it-myself will be appreciated. Thanks RamV