Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Package name : libgetopt-tabular-perl Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Copyright © 1995-98 Greg Ward URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Getopt-Tabular/ License : same as Perl itself Programming Lang: Perl Description : Perl module for table-driven argument parsing
Getopt::Tabular is a Perl 5 module for table-driven argument parsing, vaguely inspired by John Ousterhout's Tk_ParseArgv. . Some nice features of Getopt::Tabular are: . * Command-line arguments are carefully type-checked, both by pattern and number---e.g. if an option requires two integers, GetOptions makes sure that exactly two integers follow it! . * The valid command-line arguments are specified in a data structure separate from the call to GetOptions; this makes it easier to have very long lists of options, and to parse options from multiple sources (e.g. the command line, an environment variable, and a configuration file). . * Getopt::Tabular can intelligently generate help text based on your option descriptions. . * The type system is extensible, and if you can define your desired argument type using a single Perl regular expression then it's particularly easy to extend. . * Options can be abbreviated and come in any order. . * A "spoof" mode in which arguments are parsed without side-effects. libgetopt-tabular-perl is needed by minc (http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/minc), so the Debian-Med packaging team would be really greatful if somebody would take care of packaging this module, which field of use is broader than our scope. -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan
