Hi ... Im lost with optparse. Got a couple of questions if its OK. 1. I've been reading the documentation but I cant get it into my thick head how I tell an option that it is required or optional? I guess all opts are optional initially, but how do I say that an option is required. 2. How do I gracefully tell the user that an option they provided is non-existent. I dont want ruby to crash with a big bang and a lot of error output. At at last I would like to appologies if this are noobish questions. Im new to ruby and Im struggling to get a hang of it. But I dont read ruby code flawlessly and I dont always get the examples that the gems provide me. /Roger -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.