Parsers that consume multiple arguments

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Since Nov 13, 2025.

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
haskell
Domain
cli

Research direction

No source file, test, or entry point is named. Start by locating the option-argument parser API and its existing handling of repeated or multiple arguments, then compare it with the example. Done means the command-line input produces the requested list of pairs and has coverage for repeated options.

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Description

Is there a way to write a parser for an option that takes multiple command-line arguments?

For example, if I wanted the command-line args

-p one two -p three four

to be parsed into a result like

[("one", "two"), ("three", "four")]
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Haskell
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