Preface

During our daily involvement in C/C++ development, we were often confronted with such repetitive and mechanical tasks as parsing the command line or configuration files. We quickly came to the realization that a robust and versatile library for performing those tasks could save a substantial amount of our development time. Examples of existing tools with similar functionality included popt or parsecfg. Although both were effective at addressing one of the aforementioned problems, neither one provided a unified solution. Clearly, the stage was set for a new tool with a uniform and consistent API for parsing both the command line and configuration files. And that is how libcfg+ was born...