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A simple set of CLI argument parsing procedures using std/parseopt that covers the majority of basic cases for parsing CLI arguments.
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| # by Chris Collazo | |
| # Released to the public domain | |
| import std/parseopt | |
| # `short` is optional | |
| proc get_option*(oparser: var OptParser, name: string, default: string, short: string = ""): string = | |
| for kind, key, val in oparser.getopt(): | |
| if kind == cmdLongOption and key == name: | |
| return val |