[jira] Updated: (CLI-53) Parsing error?

["Emmanuel Bourg (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Emmanuel Bourg updated CLI-53:
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    Component/s:     (was: CLI-2.x)
                 Parser
    Environment:     (was: Operating System: Linux
Platform: PC)
        Summary: Parsing error?  (was: [cli] Parsing error?)

> Parsing error?
> --------------
>
>                 Key: CLI-53
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLI-53
>             Project: Commons CLI
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Parser
>    Affects Versions: 1.0
>            Reporter: C Rose
>             Fix For: 2.1
>
>
> Hi
> If one accidentally confuses the long and short argument name styles, then the value of the argument is 
> incorrect. This is mad clear by an example:
> If I have a program that I call as follows:
> my_prog --file my_file.txt
> or
> my_prog -f my_file.txt
> but I make a typo and write
> my_prog -file my_file.txt
> then getOptionValue('f') will return "ile" (i.e. it thinks the remainder of the argument's name is the 
> argument). "my_file.txt" will be ignored.
> This is clearly an error that the user has made, but I think that CLI should be able to detect such an 
> error and throw an appropriate exception.

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