NAME

Getopt::Lazy - Yet another lazy, minimal way of using Getopt::Long

SYNOPSIS

    use Getopt::Lazy
        'help|h' => 'Show this help screen',
        'verbose|v' => 'Show verbose output',
        'output|o=s' => ["[FILE] Send the output to FILE", 'getopt.out'],
        'output-encoding=s' => ['[ENCODING] Specify the output encoding', 'utf8'],
        -summary => 'a simple example usage of Getopt::Lazy',
        -usage => '%c %o file1 [file2 ..]',
        ;

    getopt;
    print usage and exit 1 unless @ARGV;

DESCRIPTION

Getting tired of the digging the same tedious "getopt" things for every script that you write? This module works for you!

Without Getopt::Lazy

Normally we started a script this way:

    use File::Basename;
    use Getopt::Long;

    sub usage {
        my $msg = shift;
        my $cmd = basename $0;
        print $msg, "\n" if defined $msg;
        print <<__USAGE__;
    $cmd - Yet another tool for whatever you like
    Usage:  $cmd [options...] file [more-file]
    Options:
            --boolean,-b                        Turn on the function A
            --string, -s STRING                 Specify the name of blahblah (defaults 'blahblah')
            --another-string, -as STRING        Specify an alias for blahblah (defaults 'blahblah')
            ...
    __USAGE__
    }

    my $boolean = 0;
    my $string = 'blahblah';
    my $another_string = 'blahblah';
    ...

    GetOptions(
        'boolean|b' => \$boolean,
        'string|s=s' => \$string,
        'another-string|as=s' => \$string,
        ...
    );

    usage and exit unless @ARGV;

With Getopt::Lazy

...or, being a little bit "lazier" than usual:

    use Getopt::Lazy
        'boolean|b' => 'Turn on the function A',
        'string|s=s' => ['[STRING] Specify the name of blahblah' => 'blahblah'],
        'another-string|as=s' => ['[STRING] Specify an alias for blahblah' => 'blahblah'],
        -summary => 'Yet another tool for whatever you like',
        -usage => '%c %o file1 [more-file]',
        ;

    getopt;
    print usage and exit 1 unless @ARGV;

What We've Got?

The usage() will display the following help screen for you:

    $ lazy
    lazy - Yet another tool for whatever you like
    Usage:  lazy [options..] file1 [more-file]
    Options:
            --another-string, -as STRING    Specify an alias for blahblah (default: blahblah)
            --boolean                       Turn on the function A
            --string, -s STRING             Specify the name of blahblah (default: blahblah)

Detail Usage

Basically the Getopt::Lazy does two things for you: 1) spawning a variable for every given option, and 2) generating GNU-style help message. (Guess I was too lazy to put this down in details. See for yourself!) If you have other even lazier ways of doing the same thing, be sure to let me know!

INTERFACE

show_help

Show the help screen

GetOptions

Make Getopt::Long work!

CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT

Getopt::Lazy requires no configuration files or environment variables.

DEPENDENCIES

Getopt::Lazy depends on Getopt::Long.

INCOMPATIBILITIES

None reported (so far so good.)

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

No bugs have been reported.

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-getopt-lazy@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org.

AUTHOR

Ruey-Cheng Chen <rueycheng@gmail.com>

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2007, Ruey-Cheng Chen <rueycheng@gmail.com>. All rights reserved.

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

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY

BECAUSE THIS SOFTWARE IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE SOFTWARE, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE SOFTWARE "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE SOFTWARE IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE SOFTWARE PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR, OR CORRECTION.

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cpanm Getopt::Lazy

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Getopt::Lazy