Hi Alfonso, Thank you for your reply. Boost lib? This is in C, not C++, and if it's the libboost I'm thinking you mean, how would this help me with an implementation of getopt strings in YACC? Indeed, I could just use getopt(), but this is now getting off topic.
Have I misundertood? Kindly, Michael On 17 August 2015 at 14:26, Alfonso Urdaneta <alfonso.e.urdan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Michael. > > There's a boost lib for what you want to do that's probably easier. > > Alfonso > > > On Monday, August 17, 2015, Michael Treibton <mtreib...@googlemail.com> > wrote: >> >> Hello all, >> >> I have an existing application which uses a lot of YACC for its >> configuration file. In trying to stream-line a lot of options, and >> for wider changes surrounding the application itself, I'm looking at >> trying to define something in YACC which would allow to the inclusion >> of getopt style strings. >> >> Is this possible? >> >> By getopt, I mean BSD-style getopt where there's only a single-letter >> option. Hence, in terms of what this might look like in the >> configuration file itself, I was thinking: >> >> some_command -ab -c option some_other_option >> >> Where you can see "-ab" in this case are just options, with "-c" >> taking an "option", and then "some_other_option" being separate. >> >> Is this even possible, I wonder? >> >> TIA! >> >> Michael >> >> _______________________________________________ >> help-bison@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-bison > > > > -- > alfonso e. urdaneta _______________________________________________ help-bison@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-bison