Over the years, I have written several Java tools that take command line arguments to control their behavior. Early on, I found it annoying to manually create and maintain the code for processing ...

Let's step away from File IO for a minute to talk about a feature of Java we have been ignoring, but might find helpful for working with files: command-line arguments. We just successfully passed in 3 ...

The primary aim is to parse command-line argument in the POSIX standard, which is what most end users will already recognise. In addition JCLAP supports long names for options, and an option to stop ...

Some programs provide the ability to add arguments when executing it in order to change a particular behavior or modify how the program operates. As an example lets look at the command line ...

(The below post is brought to you from years of being irritated by other programmers' quirky command line syntax, and my acknowledgement that for many small apps, doing it "right" can take up way ...