Positional arguments and flag package

[Amit Saha]

Hi all, I realize that the flag package stops parsing os.Args[] once it finds a non "-" character. This means, if I invoke my program as:

$ ./myprog arg1 -d value

flag.Parse() will stop parsing the moment it sees arg1 and result in NArg() returning 2 instead of 1.

Is there a recommended workaround to handle both $./myprog -d value arg1 and $./myprog arg1 -d value correctly?

Thanks for any suggestions.

Thanks,

Amit.

[Roland Müller]

Actually, it's explicitly documented, so I don't have to guess:

https://golang.org/pkg/flag/#hdr-Command_line_flag_syntax

Am Do., 15. Okt. 2020 um 08:22 Uhr schrieb Roland Müller <rol...@gmail.com>:

I guess it's usage of flag is meant in to behave like parsing flags in Unix/LInux, or Python' argparse:

• after the command you have the flags denoted by '-'
• after flags follow rest of command line args where elements can be every character string

BR,

Roland

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[Roland Müller]

I guess it's usage of flag is meant in to behave like parsing flags in Unix/LInux, or Python' argparse:

• after the command you have the flags denoted by '-'
• after flags follow rest of command line args where elements can be every character string

BR,

Roland

Am Fr., 9. Okt. 2020 um 07:10 Uhr schrieb Amit Saha <amits...@gmail.com>:

[Amit Saha]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 4:27 PM Roland Müller <rol...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Actually, it's explicitly documented, so I don't have to guess:
> https://golang.org/pkg/flag/#hdr-Command_line_flag_syntax

Thank you. I read it and it makes sense why the behavior is like that.