Best way to parse command-line parameters? [closed]

Answer 1

I just created my simple enumeration

val args: Array[String] = "-silent -samples 100 -silent".split(" +").toArray
                                              //> args  : Array[String] = Array(-silent, -samples, 100, -silent)
object Opts extends Enumeration {

    class OptVal extends Val {
        override def toString = "-" + super.toString
    }

    val nopar, silent = new OptVal() { // boolean options
        def apply(): Boolean = args.contains(toString)
    }

    val samples, maxgen = new OptVal() { // integer options
        def apply(default: Int) = { val i = args.indexOf(toString) ;  if (i == -1) default else args(i+1).toInt}
        def apply(): Int = apply(-1)
    }
}

Opts.nopar()                              //> res0: Boolean = false
Opts.silent()                             //> res1: Boolean = true
Opts.samples()                            //> res2: Int = 100
Opts.maxgen()                             //> res3: Int = -1

I understand that solution has two major flaws that may distract you: It eliminates the freedom (i.e. the dependence on other libraries, that you value so much) and redundancy (the DRY principle, you do type the option name only once, as Scala program variable and eliminate it second time typed as command line text).