the all-thing | 2010-07-29 19:51:20 -0400 
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Trollop 1.15 released
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  Date: September 30, 2009  6:59pm
Author: William Morgan
Labels: trollop, releases
   URL: http://all-thing.net/trollop-1.15-released.txt

I've just released Trollop [1] 1.15, which fixes an irritating misfeature
pointed out by Rafael Sevilla: when Trollop runs out of characters when it's
generating short option names, e.g. when you have a lot of options, it
shouldn't throw an exception and die. It should just continue peacefully.

Trollop's reign of domination [2] continues!

[1] http://trollop.rubyforge.org
[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/897630/really-cheap-command-line-option-parsing-in-ruby/1012930#1012930


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Will Fitzgerald, on March 31, 2010  1:53pm:
["| The float option doesn't (yet) handle scientific notation, but it could with\n", "| this diff from the current Git repo. It adds an optional part to the FLOAT_RE,\n", "| and a test at the end. Thanks for Trollop, by the way; it is the best command\n", "| line parser I've ever used:\n", "| \n", "| \n", "| diff --git a/lib/trollop.rb b/lib/trollop.rb\n", "| index 8c8818f..02d4c34 100644\n", "| --- a/lib/trollop.rb\n", "| +++ b/lib/trollop.rb\n", "| @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ class HelpNeeded  StandardError; end\n", "|   class VersionNeeded  StandardError; end\n", "| \n", "|   ## Regex for floating point numbers\n", "| -FLOAT_RE = /^-?((\\d+(\\.\\d+)?)|(\\.\\d+))$/\n", "| +FLOAT_RE = /^-?((\\d+(\\.\\d+)?)|(\\.\\d+))([eE][-+]?[\\d]+)?$/\n", "| \n", "|   ## Regex for parameters\n", "|   PARAM_RE = /^-(-|\\.$|[^\\d\\.])/\n", "| diff --git a/test/test_trollop.rb b/test/test_trollop.rb\n", "| index ed07a3c..fadfb2a 100644\n", "| --- a/test/test_trollop.rb\n", "| +++ b/test/test_trollop.rb\n", "| @@ -97,6 +97,8 @@ class Trollop  ::Test::Unit::TestCase\n", "|          assert_equal 2.41, opts[\"argsf\"]\n", "|          assert_nothing_raised { opts = @p.parse(%w(--argsf 2)) }\n", "|          assert_equal 2, opts[\"argsf\"]\n", "| +        assert_nothing_raised { opts = @p.parse(%w(--argsf 1.0e-2)) }\n", "| +        assert_equal 1.0e-2, opts[\"argsf\"]\n", "|          assert_raise(CommandlineError) { @p.parse(%w(--argsf hello)) }\n", "| \n", "|          # single arg: date\n", "| \n", "| \n", "| \n", "| \n", "| \n", "| -- Will\n", "| \n"]

  William Morgan, on April 20, 2010  2:44am:
["  | \n", "  | Newest version is 1.16.2 and this is in it. Thanks again!\n"]
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