Boost Program Options Syntax

Question

I\'m using boost::program_options to read the users\' input from the command line argument. It works very nicely and allows me to output helpful usage messages and validate

Answer 1

Short options by definition have just one character. If they had more, they'd be long options.

To allow long options to start with a single dash, include the allow_long_disguise command-line style, as described on the documentation page you linked to:

It's possible to introduce long options by the same character as short options, see allow_long_disguise.