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@…