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

[Papp Gyozo (VBuster)]

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

As far as I see, yes. (Actually I'd like to use only for enums ;) and strings.)

> 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)

well, actually I 

I took a look at generated source and I figured out I would have to modify 
write_into_file() function.  I don't see how it would be the best though...

> Notice that I'd avoid print numeric values since their conversion into 

Oh, I thought _orig always contains the original string representation from 
argv[]. By the way, it doesn't matter me right now as I said before I want to 
use it for string option in first place.