Re: [Sbcl-devel] Getting user options from command-line

[Elliott S. <ell...@gm...>]

On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Juho Snellman <js...@ik...> wrote:
> "Elliott Slaughter" <ell...@gm...> writes:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am writing a program that needs to parse command-line arguments. In
>> the SBCL manual it says that command-line arguments can be read from
>> sb-ext:*posix-argv*. However, these include runtime and toplevel
>> options not relevant to my program. Is there any way to get just the
>> user options, without having to write a custom function to extract
>> them from *posix-argv*?
>
> Are you sure? Both runtime and toplevel options should be stripped
> away (though the latter obviously only if you're using the default
> :toplevel when making the core). If you're sure, can you please post
> an example? :-)

Sorry, I double checked and you're right. (Maybe I made a typo or
something in my initial testing...)

Thanks!


-- 
Elliott Slaughter

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