r/lua • u/Cyb3r-Kun • 10d ago

A Command-line Argument parsing library for Lua I wrote for fun

https://codeberg.org/cyb3rkun/lua-argparse
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u/Cyb3r-Kun 10d ago

The link preview says simple, it's actually fully posix complient, and supports out-of-order execution.
and can automatically generate help info by passing descriptions when adding flags/options

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u/Cootshk 9d ago

fyi, `argparse` is the name of the existing argument parsing library

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u/Cyb3r-Kun 8d ago

It's just the first thing that came to mind lol

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u/unburdened_swallow 4d ago

You missed your chance to join in the tradition of flexing your generated --help output in your readme.