It would probably be easier to diagnose your problem if you post an entire code example that reproduces the problem. Chris On 6/10/07, jono <jp@day-one.com> wrote:

...for my earlier grumpy email about program_options.

i'm was wanting to pass some sequences to some options using boost::program_options. something like:

[me@here ~]$program --opt1 1 2 3 4 --opt2 5 6 7 8 --opt3 xxx yyy zzz

if i use

desc.add_options("opt1", value< vector<string> >()->multitoken(), "...")

i get all the tokens to the end of the line.

can i make multitoken() stop eating tokens by recognizing a syntactic element; either an option specifier or a token it can't interpret as a required type? can i inherit from the value_semantic class to read multiple tokens maybe?

this whole library is very interesting but subtle. i do better when i can read examples of working code. does anyone know a more extensive discussion of it besides the distibution docs? ...which are great by the way!

cheers jono

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