Re: [Caml-list] Newbie q. about Arg parsing

[Christophe Delage <cdelage@ens-lyon.fr>]

On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Gerald heinig wrote:

> Hi all,
Hi,

> Can you use Arg to parse the command line in purely functional style? If
> yes, how?

Well, Arg.parse expects functions of type string -> unit, int -> unit,
etc. and calls theses functions when it finds the corresponding argument.
This is a purely imperative behaviour, I am afraid that doing something
usefull with Arg.parse leads to some side effects.

The simplest idea I see is to keep a reference to the integer you
want to pass to fnamefun, and setting it when you see a "-s":

let main =
  let lineno = ref 0 in (* or any other default value *)
  let call_fname filename = (* call fnamefun with the right args *)
    fnamefun filename !lineno in

    Arg.parse
      [ "-s", (fun i -> intarg := i), "linenumber";
        "-", call_fname, "filename" ]
      call_fname
      "usage"

(assuming that fnamefun takes two arguments : the filename and the lineno)

Hope this helps,

Christophe

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