#include "tclap/CmdLine.h" #include using namespace TCLAP; // Define a simple 3D vector type struct Vect3D { double v[3]; std::ostream& print(std::ostream &os) const { std::copy(v, v + 3, std::ostream_iterator(os, " ")); return os; } }; // operator>> will be used to assign to the vector since the default // is that all types are ValueLike. std::istream &operator>>(std::istream &is, Vect3D &v) { if (!(is >> v.v[0] >> v.v[1] >> v.v[2])) throw TCLAP::ArgParseException(" Argument is not a 3D vector"); return is; } int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { CmdLine cmd("Command description message", ' ', "0.9"); ValueArg vec("v", "vect", "vector", true, Vect3D(), "3D vector", cmd); try { cmd.parse(argc, argv); } catch(std::exception &e) { std::cout << e.what() << std::endl; return EXIT_FAILURE; } vec.getValue().print(std::cout); std::cout << std::endl; }