"extra args" from clap-rs

[Zooce]

Is it possible to gather the arguments after a double hyphen with Clap:

$ myapp some_positional_argument -z --cool -- "--extra1 one" --extra2

I'm looking to get two extra arguments: --extra1 one and --extra2.

[kornel]

-- usually means end of options, so Clap won't parse past that.

You could run clap twice - once to get remaining args after --, and then second time to parse just them via https://docs.rs/clap/2.33.1/clap/struct.App.html?search=#method.get_matches_from

[Zooce]

Okay, that's an interesting solution. Thank you for the suggestion!

I've been combing through the docs and I also just found the clap::Arg::last and clap::Arg::allow_hyphen_values functions which I might be able to combine to get the behavior I'm looking for...not sure yet.

[Zooce]

Okay, I got the behavior I wanted from adding a new argument like this:

clap::App::with_name("notthatcool")
    //...all the normal arguments...
    .arg(
        clap::Arg::with_name("extras")
            .last(true)
            .allow_hyphen_values(true)
            .multiple(true)
    )
    .get_matches();

(and just for completeness) I can then get the values as Strings like this:

let extras: Vec<String> = match arg_matches.values_of("extras") {
    Some(iter) => iter.map(|it| it.into()).collect(),
    None => vec![]
};