Looking for a Command Line Argument Parser for .NET

c# .net command-line arguments
dr. evil picture dr. evil · Mar 10, 2009 · Viewed 28.9k times · Source

I'm looking for a command line argument parser, such as "Command line parser" from http://www.sellsbrothers.com/tools/Genghis/ .

Features I'm looking for:

  • Auto-generation of usage
  • Should able to check required and optional parameters
  • Parameters should support IEnumerable with separator support
  • Should support flag parameters
  • Would be nice to support combining parameters such as "/fx" == "/f /x"
  • Would be nice to not force for a space after a parameter such as "/ftest.txt" == "/f test.txt"

P.S : "Command line parser" is quite good, I really like the design of it but there is no documentation, no new updates and I couldn't figure out to do certain stuff such as how to check for required parameters.

Answer

Raoul picture Raoul · Mar 10, 2009

My personal favourite 3rd party commandline parsing library is Command Line Parser and I assume this is the one you are referring to. The most recent release was less than 2 months ago and there are regular commits. If you want a more mature offering you could chek out the console library in the mono project (sorry I can't seem to find a direct link to the namespace at the moment, but its a part of the mono framework)

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