Command line parser for Qt4

Question

I am looking for a command line parser for Qt4.

I did a small google search, and found this: http://www.froglogic.com/pg?id=PublicationsFreeware&category=getopt how

Answer 1

It's 2013 and still no "1st party" arg parser. Anyways..if anyone finds themselves facing the same problem and would like to avoid the learning curves that come with cmd parser libs, here is a "quick & dirty" fix for you:-

QString QArgByKey(QString key, QChar sep = QChar('\0') ) //prototype usually in separate header

QString QArgByKey(QString key, QChar sep )
{
    bool sepd=sep!=QChar('\0');
    int pos=sepd?qApp->arguments().indexOf(QRegExp('^'+key+sep+"\\S*")):qApp->arguments().indexOf(QRegExp(key));
    return pos==-1?QString::null:
    (sepd?qApp->arguments().at(pos).split(sep).at(1):(++posarguments().size()?qApp->arguments().at(pos):QString::null));
}

Example:-

user@box:~$ ./myApp  firstKey=Value1 --secondKey Value2 thirdKey=val3.1,val3.2,val3.3 --enable-foo

Usage:

QString param1   = QArgByKey("firstkey",'='); // Returns `Value1` from first pair
QString param2   = QArgByKey("--secondkey"); // Returns `Value2` from second pair
QString param3-1 = QArgByKey("thirdkey",'=').split(',').at(0); // Returns `val3.1`
bool fooEnabled  = qApp->arguments().contains("--enable-foo"); //To check for `--enable-foo` 

Params can be passed in any order

Edit: Updates to this snippet will be found here