Bug #40355 for Getopt-Long: not a bug but a request

Fri Oct 24 15:26:27 2008 railpurdue [...] alumni.purdue.edu - Ticket created

Subject:	not a bug but a request
Date:	Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:26:00 -0400
To:	bug-Getopt-Long [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	"Rail Shafigulin" <cybodrive [...] gmail.com>

This is not a bug report but a feature request. It would be really nice to have the ability to specify the values options can take. For example: Say I have an option -ext. I need this option be able to take on the following values only: txt, doc, xls, mp3, mp, wav. So if the user enters -ext vhdl then there will be an error saying that this option value is invalid. I currently have a way arround it but it would be really helpful to have that feature built-in Thank you

Sat Oct 25 09:13:38 2008 jv [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

This is planned for some future version (but don't hold your breath). It is currently easy to do it with a callback function.

Sat Oct 25 09:13:40 2008 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Mon Nov 24 11:37:44 2008 MOREGAN [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

On Fri Oct 24 15:26:27 2008, railpurdue@alumni.purdue.edu wrote: Show quoted text

> For example: > Say I have an option -ext. I need this option be able to take on the > following values only: txt, doc, xls, mp3, mp, wav. So if the user enters > -ext vhdl then there will be an error saying that this option value is > invalid.

If wish mode is on, how about support for a regex: GetOptions( 'ext=/^(txt|doc|xls|mp3|mp|wav)$/' => \$extension ); ? Mike

Mon Nov 24 17:56:57 2008 jv [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

On Mon Nov 24 11:37:44 2008, MOREGAN wrote: Show quoted text

> GetOptions( 'ext=/^(txt|doc|xls|mp3|mp|wav)$/' => \$extension );

GetOptions ( 'ext=s' => sub { my ($opt, $val) = @_; die("Invalid value $val for option $opt") unless $val =~ /^(txt|doc|xls|mp3|mp|wav)$/; $extension = $val; } );

Sun Nov 20 09:43:16 2011 jv [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'rejected'