Re: [help-gengetopt] Feature request: write_into_file prints *_arg, too

[Lorenzo Bettini]

Papp Gyozo (VBuster) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think it vould be very handsome for diagnosting purposes, if not
> only can the options' _orig field be printed/dumped by the parser but
> their translated/interpreted _arg fields as well, probably as a
> comment:
>
> option = "ele" # element
>
> The point here is that application may alter the user-supplied
> arguments, thus when dumping the actual config it may worth knowing
> what the application really thinks abou the options' actual value.

Hi there!

yes that'd be helpful; of course, this makes sense only for options with 
values right?

> What do you think about it? I'll probably come up with a patch if I
> find how to do it ;)

well it should be "quite" simple:

- first of all, I assume this will be done only for options with values
- in this case, output the element of the array holding the string 
values for an option with values (using the correct index)

what do you think?

Notice that I'd avoid print numeric values since their conversion into 
strings highly depends on how you format them (I'm talking about numbers 
with decimals, e.g.)

Or were you taking about different scenarios?

cheers
        Lorenzo

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