[program_options] Config file and/or response file
Hello, Couple of questions about program options config file (and/or response file). I've got an options set that is starting to get fairly verbose, it's rich, but is also impractical to expect users to type that many options. So I would like to capture some (or all) of those options in one or more different config files, depending on the options that need to be set for a given session. With config files, can the parse_config_file method build a vector of options? For instance if I define "value" as vector<int>, can I specify value=1, value=2, value=3 and expect {1,2,3}? Or does the convention go something like this, value=1 2 3, and so on? Next, how does the parse_config_file method treat boiler plate iterative sections? In other words, if I've got a pattern and would like to capture zero or more of that pattern: [pattern] name=test param=1 expected=2 actual=3 [pattern] name=result param=4 expected=5 actual=6 Those might inform a vector<pattern> type concern downstream of the parser. Possible? Third, in a response file, there is a statement about "limitations", which was left at that. Can we be more specific? What kind of limitations are we talking about? Obvious ones like the delimiters between tokens come to mind, but other than that, that's a nebulous statement at best. Thank you. Regards, Michael Powell
Michael Powell wrote:
Hello,
Couple of questions about program options config file (and/or response file)...
I went through somewhat of the same last week. As I'm not that practiced
with templates I think it was easier to roll my own as I would not be
using strict ini format. The program_options ini is parsed in
boost/property_tree/ini_parser.hpp I just took that as a basis. (rather
than paste, here are my project files with 'profile.ini')
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