When a default string is an empty string, it shows without quotes in help

[piotrklos-tcl]

When I define a default argument to an option like this:

      ("c,config", "a json config, as a string", cxxopts::value<string>()->default_value(""))

it shows in the help like this:

-c, --config arg       a json config, as a string (default: )

This is ambiguous because the user won't know if the default is an empty string or if there is no default. It should look like this:

-c, --config arg       a json config, as a string (default: "")

[rathod-sahaab]

try default_value("\"\""); escaped quotes

[jarro2783]

@piotrklos-tcl That seems reasonable. @rathod-sahaab That would set the default value to actually be the string "", which is probably not what is needed.

[rathod-sahaab]

@jarro2783 I get it now 😅 Need to edit one of help()

[TheQue42]

I am trying to figure out if there is a way to ALWAYS get the default value quoted? Some of my default values are space separated strings, and it would be much clearer if they were always quoted.