Bug #12135: OptParse rejects --longopt= with a zero-length argument.

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: 2.1.5 and 2.4.0
• Backport: 2.1: UNKNOWN, 2.2: UNKNOWN, 2.3: UNKNOWN

[Warwick (Tim Baverstock)]

OptParse diverges from C's OptParse by rejecting a zero-length argument given to a long option.

C accepts it:

$ ./a.out --delete=
option delete with arg ''

Ruby fails:

OptionParser::InvalidArgument: invalid argument: --filters=

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Description updated (diff)
• Status changed from Open to Feedback

What is "C's OptParse"?

[jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans)]

• Status changed from Feedback to Closed