extern crate clap; use clap::{App, Arg}; fn main() { // Once all App settings (including all arguments) have been set, you call get_matches() which // parses the string provided by the user, and returns all the valid matches to the ones you // specified. // // You can then query the matches struct to get information about how the user ran the program // at startup. // // For this example, let's assume you created an App which accepts three arguments (plus two // generated by clap), a flag to display debugging information triggered with "-d" or // "--debug" as well as an option argument which specifies a custom configuration file to use // triggered with "-c file" or "--config file" or "--config=file" and finally a positional // argument which is the input file we want to work with, this will be the only required // argument. let matches = App::new("MyApp") .about("Parses an input file to do awesome things") .version("1.0") .author("Kevin K. ") .arg(Arg::new("debug") .help("turn on debugging information") .short("d") .long("debug")) .arg(Arg::new("config") .help("sets the config file to use") .short("c") .long("config")) .arg(Arg::new("input") .help("the input file to use") .index(1) .required(true)) .get_matches(); // We can find out whether or not debugging was turned on if matches.is_present("debug") { println!("Debugging is turned on"); } // If we wanted to some custom initialization based off some configuration file provided // by the user, we could get the file (A string of the file) if let Some(ref file) = matches.value_of("config") { println!("Using config file: {}", file); } // Because "input" is required we can safely call unwrap() because had the user NOT // specified a value, clap would have explained the error the user, and exited. println!("Doing real work with file: {}", matches.value_of("input").unwrap() ); // Continued program logic goes here... }