| Subject: | Feature request or doc update |
| Date: | Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:12:50 +0100 |
| To: | bug-getopt-euclid [...] rt.cpan.org |
| From: | Duncan Ferguson <duncan_j_ferguson [...] yahoo.co.uk> |
Hiya,
I have a script I want to break out into modules are part of it needs
to be used in another script. I am looking at using Getopt::Euclid to
provide the common command line documentation.
The command line I am trying to document (currently done via
Getopt::Std) is
script.pl [-a] [-b] [-c] [[user@]hostname[:port] ...
The first part is ok, but I am struggling with how to complete the
hostname part - how do I include that within the docs? It seem
unflagged placeholders dont quite fit what I am trying to to (after
all, which part of it becomes the placeholder? Or, instead, how can I
write the POD such that they are left in @ARGV so i can process those
after Getopt::Euclid has finished with the rest?
As an example the script could be called as
script.pl
script.pl hostname
script.pl hostname hostname
script.pl hostname:port username@hostname username@hostname:port
hostname
etc...
I dont want to put a flag in front of all the hostname as that would
break backwards compatibility
Thanks
Duncs