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<h2 title="Class PatternOptionBuilder" class="title">Class PatternOptionBuilder</h2>
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<pre>public class <span class="typeNameLabel">PatternOptionBuilder</span>
extends <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/Object.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang">Object</a></pre>
<div class="block"><p>Allows Options to be created from a single String.
 The pattern contains various single character flags and via
 an optional punctuation character, their expected type.
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   <caption>Overview of PatternOptionBuilder patterns</caption>
   <tr><td>a</td><td>-a flag</td></tr>
   <tr><td>b@</td><td>-b [classname]</td></tr>
   <tr><td>c&gt;</td><td>-c [filename]</td></tr>
   <tr><td>d+</td><td>-d [classname] (creates object via empty constructor)</td></tr>
   <tr><td>e%</td><td>-e [number] (creates Double/Long instance depending on existing of a '.')</td></tr>
   <tr><td>f/</td><td>-f [url]</td></tr>
   <tr><td>g:</td><td>-g [string]</td></tr>
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 For example, the following allows command line flags of '-v -p string-value -f /dir/file'.
 The exclamation mark precede a mandatory option.
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     Options options = PatternOptionBuilder.parsePattern("vp:!f/");
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 TODO: These need to break out to OptionType and also to be pluggable.
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<pre>public static&nbsp;<a href="../../../../org/apache/commons/cli/Options.html" title="class in org.apache.commons.cli">Options</a>&nbsp;parsePattern(<a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/String.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang">String</a>&nbsp;pattern)</pre>
<div class="block">Returns the <a href="../../../../org/apache/commons/cli/Options.html" title="class in org.apache.commons.cli"><code>Options</code></a> instance represented by <code>pattern</code>.</div>
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