On Aug 9, 2007, at 10:08 PM, Jon Hawkins wrote: > is there a better, or different way to pipe arguments to a program > rather than using optparse? or is that the best and fastest way? i prefer not to parse options, or at least i've written it one final time: http://codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby/main/main-0.0.2/samples/a.rb http://codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby/main/main-0.0.2/samples/b.rb http://codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby/main/main-0.0.2/samples/c.rb http://codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby/main/main-0.0.2/samples/d.rb gem install main with main you can abstract all that repetitive stuff into a few declarative statements. regards. a @ http://drawohara.com/ -- we can deny everything, except that we have the possibility of being better. simply reflect on that. h.h. the 14th dalai lama