[ros-users] how to "rosparam set" with a negative number?

[Ken Conley]

You're right, going back through the code I realize that I tried to
circumvent this optparse issue, bug my workaround is faulty. I'll
update the ticket

 - Ken

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Blaise Gassend <blaise at willowgarage.com> wrote:
> That doesn't work for me:
> {{{
> blaise at bnl: /wg/stor5/blaise $ rosparam set /longitude -- -97.728524
> Usage: rosparam set [options] parameter value
>
> rosparam: error: invalid arguments. Please specify a parameter value
> }}}
>
> And the fact that only negatives starting with 9 are a problem suggests
> that something stranger is going on.
>
> On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 09:25 -0700, Ken Conley wrote:
>> The issue is telling optparse that options are over:
>>
>> rosparam set /longitude -- -97.728524
>>
>> Not the most obvious solution, blame POSIX :)
>>
>>  - Ken
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Jack O'Quin <jack.oquin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Maybe I'm overlooking something obvious here, but this fails:
>> >
>> > $ rosparam set /longitude -97.728524
>> > Usage: rosparam set [options] parameter value
>> >
>> > rosparam: error: no such option: -9
>> >
>> > Is there some trick? Quoting does not help.
>> >
>> > I can rosparam load the value from a YAML file, but I still wonder how
>> > to do it from the command line.
>> > --
>> >  joq
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