T'interwebs, I'm confused. I'm writing a program to learn Rust, and the argument parser is behaving oddly. I give it one argument, and it acts as though I've given it another. Please can someone point out the bit where I've been stupid? gist.github.com/arafel/2d65e… cc @dsilverstone
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Replying to @arafel2
I'm afraid I've lost the knack to read clap parser chains. I use the derive approach where you define your CLI as structs and enums

Apr 23, 2022 Β· 6:30 PM UTC

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Replying to @dsilverstone @arafel2
Though what it looks like is that your `update` argument has the value `search` which is kinda expected - it looks to me like you intended `update` and `search` to be subcommands of `groups` no?
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I did, but I was expecting β€œupdate” to be Boolean, ie if the flag is present the value is true, no arguments or anything. search takes an argument (what to search for), update doesn’t. Did I get that wrong?
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Replying to @dsilverstone
I did try the derive approach, but couldn’t work out how to do ArgGroups to have exclusive sub-commands. Probably missing something there.
Replying to @dsilverstone
And thank you, by the way. πŸ™‚