Nuclex.Support/Source/Parsing/CommandLine.cs
2008-12-10 19:26:25 +00:00

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#region CPL License
/*
Nuclex Framework
Copyright (C) 2002-2008 Nuclex Development Labs
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the IBM Common Public License as
published by the IBM Corporation; either version 1.0 of the
License, or (at your option) any later version.
This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
IBM Common Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the IBM Common Public
License along with this library
*/
#endregion
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
namespace Nuclex.Support.Parsing {
/// <summary>
/// Manages an application's command line parameters
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// <para>
/// At the time of the creation of this component, there are already several command
/// line parsing libraries out there. Most of them, however, do way too much at once
/// or at the very least rely on huge, untested clutters of classes and methods to
/// arrive at their results.
/// </para>
/// <para>
/// This class does nothing more than represent the command line to the application.
/// It can parse a command line
/// parse the command line arguments. It doesn't
/// interpret them and it doesn't check them for validity. This promotes simplicity
/// and allows t
/// be unit-tested and is an ideal building block to create actual command line
/// interpreters that connect the parameters to program instructions and or fill
/// structures in code.
/// </para>
/// <para>
/// Terminology
/// <list type="table">
/// <item>
/// <term>Command line</term>
/// <description>
/// The entire command line either as a string or as
/// an already parsed data structure
/// </description>
/// </item>
/// <item>
/// <term>Option / Argument</term>
/// <description>
/// Can be specified on the command line and typically alters the behavior
/// of the application or changes a setting. For example, '--normalize' or
/// '/safemode'.
/// </description>
/// </item>
/// <item>
/// <term>Value</term>
/// <description>
/// Can either sit loosely in the command line (eg. 'update' or 'textfile.txt')
/// or as assignment to an option (eg. '--width=1280' or '/overwrite:always')
/// </description>
/// </item>
/// </list>
/// </para>
/// <para>
/// What this parser doesn't support is spaced assignments (eg. '--format png') since
/// these are ambiguous if the parser doesn't know beforehand whether "format" accepts
/// a non-optional argument.
/// </para>
/// </remarks>
public partial class CommandLine {
/// <summary>Initializes a new command line</summary>
public CommandLine() { }
/// <summary>Parses the command line arguments from the provided string</summary>
/// <param name="commandLineString">String containing the command line arguments</param>
/// <returns>The parsed command line</returns>
public static CommandLine Parse(string commandLineString) {
return Parser.Parse(commandLineString);
}
}
} // namespace Nuclex.Support.Parsing