3 Ways To Parse Command Line Arguments in C++: Quick, Do-It-Yourself, Or Comprehensive

• CLI11

  12 3,087 8.5 C++

  CLI11 is a command line parser for C++11 and beyond that provides a rich feature set with a simple and intuitive interface.

  

I use https://github.com/jarro2783/cxxopts.git or https://github.com/CLIUtils/CLI11, or if boost is involved anyway, boost.program_options.

• args

  1 65 0.0 C++

  Simple and type-safe commandline argument parser for C++14 (by pfultz2)

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• args

  2 1,276 2.1 C++

  A simple header-only C++ argument parser library. Supposed to be flexible and powerful, and attempts to be compatible with the functionality of the Python standard argparse library (though not necessarily the API).

• tclap

  4 77 0.0 C++

  Templatized C++ Command Line Parser mirror

  

TCLAP is my personal favorite.

• jarro2783/cxxopts

  15 3,989 6.8 C++

  Lightweight C++ command line option parser

I use https://github.com/jarro2783/cxxopts.git or https://github.com/CLIUtils/CLI11, or if boost is involved anyway, boost.program_options.

• text

  10 297 6.8 C++

  A spicy text library for C++ that has the explicit goal of enabling the entire ecosystem to share in proper forward progress towards a bright Unicode future. (by soasis)

  

The library you talk about is https://github.com/soasis/text and he has an account here.

• docopt.cpp

  4 1,029 0.0 C++

  C++11 port of docopt

  

Available for many languages. Link to C++ version: https://github.com/docopt/docopt.cpp

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• argumentum

  1 192 6.6 C++

  C++ command line parsing library

There is also argumentum https://github.com/mmahnic/argumentum which is for C++ 17 and supports std::optional and sub-commands.

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