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  1. Commons CLI
  2. CLI-53

Parsing error?

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    • Bug
    • Status: Resolved
    • Major
    • Resolution: Duplicate
    • 1.0
    • 1.1
    • Parser
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    • 36998

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      Hi

      If one accidentally confuses the long and short argument name styles, then the value of the argument is
      incorrect. This is mad clear by an example:

      If I have a program that I call as follows:

      my_prog --file my_file.txt

      or

      my_prog -f my_file.txt

      but I make a typo and write

      my_prog -file my_file.txt

      then getOptionValue('f') will return "ile" (i.e. it thinks the remainder of the argument's name is the
      argument). "my_file.txt" will be ignored.

      This is clearly an error that the user has made, but I think that CLI should be able to detect such an
      error and throw an appropriate exception.

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            junk5@microserf.org.uk C Rose
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