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Looking for a Command Line Argument Parser for .NET

Asked 2009-03-10T17:22:46.500
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I'm looking for a command line argument parser, such as "Command line parser" from http://www.sellsbrothers.com/tools/Genghis/ .

Features I'm looking for:

  • Auto-generation of usage
  • Should able to check required and optional parameters
  • Parameters should support IEnumerable with separator support
  • Should support flag parameters
  • Would be nice to support combining parameters such as "/fx" == "/f /x"
  • Would be nice to not force for a space after a parameter such as "/ftest.txt" == "/f test.txt"

P.S : "Command line parser" is quite good, I really like the design of it but there is no documentation, no new updates and I couldn't figure out to do certain stuff such as how to check for required parameters.

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A popular and pretty comprehensive C command-line parser is GNU getopt. This has been ported (or cloned) for C#/.Net several times. Some of these include:

Take your pick! There are several others, and google can tell you about those,

answered 2009-03-26T13:07:16.477
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I'm using the parser out of the C# 3.0 cookbook.

All the examples from this book can be downloaded here: http://examples.oreilly.com/9780596516109/

Search for 'Arguments' and you'll find it. You have to do some little code changes to get it out of the whole thing into your own class, but this is no big problem.

It supports all your points except the last two ones (parameter combining & missing space).

answered 2009-03-12T12:58:24.510

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