Longname being ignored

I have an option for a start date. [Option('s', "startdate", Required = false, HelpText

and am using the -startdate 7/1/2020 as the arg

But no matter what I do, the args always end up being parsed as a shortname "nddate 7/1/2020"

I would expect it to be 7/1/2020 and clean up that other stuff.

• Language: C#
• Framework: .Net Core 3.1
• OS: OSX 10.14
• IDE: Visual Studio Code

[moh-hassan]

I find something interesting in the commandline args in launch.json which interpret the values in the Environment.GetCommandLineArgs()

“args”: [“–folderId 123455”, “–startdate 10/12/19”, “–enddate 7/1/2020”]

That is invalid arguments because every option name and value are merged together, e.g, the argument "--folderId 123455" should be two arguments like: "--folderId" , "123455"

To correct the behaviour of the parser, modify args in launch.json as:

"args": ["--folderId", "123455", "--startdate", "10/12/19", "--enddate", "7/1/2020"]

Can you try and feedback if this resolved your issue?

[moh-hassan]

Thanks for feedback. BTW, If you want to merge options(without space separator), it can be as: ShortNames if Short option is ‘sand value12345’ Argument can be: -s12345

For LongNames use = between option name and value, like:

--folderId=123455

Alternative argument can be:

"args": ["--folderId=123455", "--startdate=10/12/19", "--enddate=7/1/2020"]
Or
"args": ["-f123455", "-s10/12/19", "--enddate=7/1/2020"]

See Commandline grammer