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

Answer 1

I based my approach on the top answer (from dave4420), and tried to improve it by making it more general-purpose.

It returns a Map[String,String] of all command line parameters You can query this for the specific parameters you want (eg using .contains) or convert the values into the types you want (eg using toInt).

def argsToOptionMap(args:Array[String]):Map[String,String]= {
  def nextOption(
      argList:List[String], 
      map:Map[String, String]
    ) : Map[String, String] = {
    val pattern       = "--(\\w+)".r // Selects Arg from --Arg
    val patternSwitch = "-(\\w+)".r  // Selects Arg from -Arg
    argList match {
      case Nil => map
      case pattern(opt)       :: value  :: tail => nextOption( tail, map ++ Map(opt->value) )
      case patternSwitch(opt) :: tail => nextOption( tail, map ++ Map(opt->null) )
      case string             :: Nil  => map ++ Map(string->null)
      case option             :: tail => {
        println("Unknown option:"+option) 
        sys.exit(1)
      }
    }
  }
  nextOption(args.toList,Map())
}

Example:

val args=Array("--testing1","testing1","-a","-b","--c","d","test2")
argsToOptionMap( args  )

Gives:

res0: Map[String,String] = Map(testing1 -> testing1, a -> null, b -> null, c -> d, test2 -> null)

Answer 2

Poor man's quick-and-dirty one-liner for parsing key=value pairs:

def main(args: Array[String]) {
    val cli = args.map(_.split("=") match { case Array(k, v) => k->v } ).toMap
    val saveAs = cli("saveAs")
    println(saveAs)
}

Answer 3

another library: scarg

Answer 4

Here's a scala command line parser that is easy to use. It automatically formats help text, and it converts switch arguments to your desired type. Both short POSIX, and long GNU style switches are supported. Supports switches with required arguments, optional arguments, and multiple value arguments. You can even specify the finite list of acceptable values for a particular switch. Long switch names can be abbreviated on the command line for convenience. Similar to the option parser in the Ruby standard library.

Answer 5

I've just found an extensive command line parsing library in scalac's scala.tools.cmd package.

See http://www.assembla.com/code/scala-eclipse-toolchain/git/nodes/src/compiler/scala/tools/cmd?rev=f59940622e32384b1e08939effd24e924a8ba8db

Answer 6

I like the clean look of this code... gleaned from a discussion here: http://www.scala-lang.org/old/node/4380

object ArgParser {
  val usage = """
Usage: parser [-v] [-f file] [-s sopt] ...
Where: -v   Run verbosely
       -f F Set input file to F
       -s S Set Show option to S
"""

  var filename: String = ""
  var showme: String = ""
  var debug: Boolean = false
  val unknown = "(^-[^\\s])".r

  val pf: PartialFunction[List[String], List[String]] = {
    case "-v" :: tail => debug = true; tail
    case "-f" :: (arg: String) :: tail => filename = arg; tail
    case "-s" :: (arg: String) :: tail => showme = arg; tail
    case unknown(bad) :: tail => die("unknown argument " + bad + "\n" + usage)
  }

  def main(args: Array[String]) {
    // if there are required args:
    if (args.length == 0) die()
    val arglist = args.toList
    val remainingopts = parseArgs(arglist,pf)

    println("debug=" + debug)
    println("showme=" + showme)
    println("filename=" + filename)
    println("remainingopts=" + remainingopts)
  }

  def parseArgs(args: List[String], pf: PartialFunction[List[String], List[String]]): List[String] = args match {
    case Nil => Nil
    case _ => if (pf isDefinedAt args) parseArgs(pf(args),pf) else args.head :: parseArgs(args.tail,pf)
  }

  def die(msg: String = usage) = {
    println(msg)
    sys.exit(1)
  }

}