id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc 2982,Required Arguments,David Doria ,Sascha Ochsenknecht,"If I have a list of 10 parameters, and all are required, I end up with a giant block of these: if(!vm.count(""input"")) { std::cout << ""Input was not set."" << std::endl; exit(-1); } It would be nice to do something like: desc.add_options() (""input"", po::value(&InputFile)->required(), ""Set input file."") That will perform that check automatically.",Feature Requests,closed,Boost 1.42.0,program_options,Boost Development Trunk,Not Applicable,fixed,Required Arguments,s.ochsenknecht@…