Check ARGV for option (what parser to use?)

Ruby
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Dear mailinglist,

Currently I’m eluded by the ARGV parser GetoptLong.
All the example show me the same structure that just itterates through
all the parsed flags and then overwrite a previously set standard value
when a certain case branch gets hit.

Am I completely wrong or is this a horrible way of doing things?

I would like for example to first check if a certain flag is set (–help
for example) before I get to setting and parsing values.

I would think that the parser creates a Hash table and that I could
acces it in this style:

if (opts[:help]) then
puts “some usage help”
else
parse all other values
end

Am I off track here?

regards
Boris

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On Jul 2, 2007, at 10:37 AM, Boris Callens wrote:

I user CommandLine::OptionParser (gem), but there is also optparse.
You might have better luck with those.

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