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diff --git a/examples/hello/README b/examples/hello/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a1fe976 --- /dev/null +++ b/examples/hello/README @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +This is a "Hello, world!" example that shows how to implement a very basic +command line interface using CLI. + +The example consists of the following files: + +hello.cli + Options class definition in the CLI language. + +hello.hxx +hello.ixx +hello.cxx + Options class implementation in C++. These files are generated by the CLI + compiler from hello.cli using the following command line: + + cli hello.cli + +driver.cxx + Driver for the example. It first instantiates the option class which parses + the command line. The driver then examines the options and prints the + greeting string for each name passed as argument. + +To run the example you can try the following command lines: + +$ ./driver --help +$ ./driver John Jane +$ ./driver --greeting Hi --exclamations 3 John Jane |