NAME

Getopt::Usaginator - Conjure up a usage function for your applications

VERSION

version 0.0012

SYNOPSIS

    use Getopt::Usaginator <<_END_;

        Usage: xyzzy <options>
    
        --derp          Derp derp derp         
        --durp          Durp durp durp
        -h, --help      This usage
        
    _END_

    # The 'usage' subroutine is now installed

    ...

    $options = parse_options( @ARGV ); # Not supplied by Usaginator

    usage if $options{help}; # Print usage and exit with status 0

    if ( ! $options{derp} ) {
        # Print warning and usage and exit with status -1
        usage "You should really derp";
    }
    
    if ( $options{durp} ) {
        # Print warning and usage and exit with status 2
        usage 2 => "--durp is not ready yet";
    }

    ...

    usage 3 # Print usage and exit with status 3

DESCRIPTION

Getopt::Usaginator is a tool for creating a handy usage subroutine for commandline applications

It does not do any option parsing, but is best paired with Getopt::Long or any of the other myriad of option parsers

USAGE

use Getopt::Usaginator <usage>

Install a usage subroutine configured with the <usage> text

$code = Getopt::Usaginator->usaginator( <usage> )

Return a subroutine configured with the <usage> text

...

More advanced usage is possible, peek under the hood for more information

    perldoc -m Getopt::Usaginator

An example:

    use Getopt::Usaginator
        # Called with the error
        error => sub { ... },
        # Called when usage printing is needed
        usage => sub { ... },
        ...
    ;

An example with Getopt::Long parsing

    use Getopt::Usaginator ...

    sub run {
        my $self = shift;
        my @arguments = @_;
    
        usage 0 unless @arguments;

        my ( $help );
        {     
            local @ARGV = @arguments;                                  
            GetOptions(
                'help|h|?' => \$help,
            );
        }

        usage 0 if $help;

        ...
    }

AUTHOR

  Robert Krimen <robertkrimen@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2010 by Robert Krimen.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.