-- testing app.parse_args asserteq = require 'pl.test'.asserteq app = require 'pl.app' path = require 'pl.path' parse_args = app.parse_args -- shows the use of plain flags, long and short: flags,args = parse_args({'-abc','--flag','-v','one'}) asserteq(flags,{a=true,b=true,c=true,flag=true,v=true}) asserteq(args,{'one'}) -- flags may be given values using these three syntaxes: flags,args = parse_args({'-n10','--out=20','-v:2'}) asserteq(flags,{n='10',out='20',v='2'}) -- a flag can be specified as taking a value: flags,args = parse_args({'-k','-b=23','-o','hello','--out'},{o=true}) asserteq(flags,{out=true,o="hello",k=true,b="23"}) -- modify this script's module path so it looks in the 'lua' subdirectory -- for its modules app.require_here 'lua' asserteq(require 'foo.args'.answer(),42) asserteq(require 'bar'.name(),'bar') asserteq( app.appfile 'config', path.expanduser('~/.test-args/config'):gsub('/',path.sep) )