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NAME
AppConfig::Args - Perl5 module for reading command line arguments.

SYNOPSIS
use AppConfig::Args;

my $state = AppConfig::State->new(\%cfg);
my $cfgargs = AppConfig::Args->new($state);

$cfgargs->parse(\@args); # read args

OVERVIEW
AppConfig::Args is a Perl5 module which reads command line arguments and uses the options
therein to update variable values in an AppConfig::State object.

AppConfig::File is distributed as part of the AppConfig bundle.

DESCRIPTION
USING THE AppConfig::Args MODULE

To import and use the AppConfig::Args module the following line should appear in your Perl
script:

use AppConfig::Args;

AppConfig::Args is used automatically if you use the AppConfig module and create an App-
Config::Args object through the parse() method.

AppConfig::File is implemented using object-oriented methods. A new AppConfig::Args
object is created and initialised using the new() method. This returns a reference to a
new AppConfig::File object. A reference to an AppConfig::State object should be passed in
as the first parameter:

my $state = AppConfig::State->new();
my $cfgargs = AppConfig::Args->new($state);

This will create and return a reference to a new AppConfig::Args object.

PARSING COMMAND LINE ARGUMENTS

The "parse()" method is used to read a list of command line arguments and update the STATE
accordingly. A reference to the list of arguments should be passed in.

$cfgargs->parse(\@ARGV);

If the method is called without a reference to an argument list then it will examine and
manipulate @ARGV.

If the PEDANTIC option is turned off in the AppConfig::State object, any parsing errors
(invalid variables, unvalidated values, etc) will generate warnings, but not cause the
method to return. Having processed all arguments, the method will return 1 if processed
without warning or 0 if one or more warnings were raised. When the PEDANTIC option is
turned on, the method generates a warning and immediately returns a value of 0 as soon as
it encounters any parsing error.

The method continues parsing arguments until it detects the first one that does not start
with a leading dash, '-'. Arguments that constitute values for other options are not
examined in this way.

FUTURE DEVELOPMENT
This module was developed to provide backwards compatibility (to some degree) with the
preceeding App::Config module. The argument parsing it provides is basic but offers a
quick and efficient solution for those times when simple option handling is all that is
required.

If you require more flexibility in parsing command line arguments, then you should con-
sider using the AppConfig::Getopt module. This is loaded and used automatically by call-
ing the AppConfig getopt() method.

The AppConfig::Getopt module provides considerably extended functionality over the AppCon-
fig::Args module by delegating out the task of argument parsing to Johan Vromans'
Getopt::Long module. For advanced command-line parsing, this module (either Getopt::Long
by itself, or in conjunction with AppConfig::Getopt) is highly recommended.

AUTHOR
Andy Wardley, <abw AT wardley.org>

REVISION
$Revision: 1.60 $

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO
AppConfig, AppConfig::State, AppConfig::Getopt, Getopt::Long

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