CypherPotato.CommandLine 1.0.1

CommandLine

This tiny library has an purpose to extract values from the command line. It is not capable of interpreting subcommands and does not use reflection to extract data. It is so small that it contains a class and that class contains 2 methods and 2 properties.

Consider this command line:

curl.exe -h "Content-Length: 0" -h "User-Agent: foo/1.0" -X POST https://example.com/posts

You can parse it and get each parameter with:

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    var parser = new CommandLine.CommandLineParser(args, StringComparison.InvariantCulture);
    
    string[] headers = parser.GetValues("header", 'h').ToArray();
    string? method = parser.GetValue("method", 'X');
    string? url = parser.GetRemainder()?.LastOrDefault();
        
    Console.WriteLine("Headers  = {0}", string.Join(", ", headers));
    Console.WriteLine("Method   = {0}", method);
    Console.WriteLine("Url      = {0}", url);
}

Getting multiple values

example.exe -p param1 param2 param3 -d "another command" --parameter param4 --foobar

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    var parser = new CommandLine.CommandLineParser(args);
    
    string[] headers = parser.GetValues("parameter", 'p').ToArray();
    // ["param1", "param2", "param3", "param4"]
}

Getting a single value

example.exe -d "command" --foo "hello"

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    var parser = new CommandLine.CommandLineParser(args);
    
    string? d = parser.GetValue("directive", 'd'); // "command"
    string? f = parser.GetValue("foo", 'f'); // "hello"
    string? x = parser.GetValue("empty"); // null
}

Check if has switch

example.exe --verbose

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    var parser = new CommandLine.CommandLineParser(args);
    
    bool verbose = parser.IsDefined("verbose"); // short-terms are optional for all methods
}

Get parameterless values

example.exe build --language "csharp" -r "System.dll" program.cs lib.cs --out item.cs foobar

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    var parser = new CommandLine.CommandLineParser(args);
    
    string[] remainder = parser.GetRemainder().ToArray();
    // ["build", "program.cs", "lib.cs", "foobar"]
}

And that's all this lib can do.