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authorPierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>2007-10-15 01:35:37 +0200
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2007-10-29 21:03:30 -0700
commit4a59fd131229968b08af9bdf221c341f54c52983 (patch)
treea8ef53eb16f801c0aee2dde11f6dee7c283e170a /parse-options.h
parent09149c7809a37a52b38d8d7a0621e2fb8943d8fe (diff)
downloadgit-4a59fd131229968b08af9bdf221c341f54c52983.tar.gz
Add a simple option parser.
The option parser takes argc, argv, an array of struct option and a usage string. Each of the struct option elements in the array describes a valid option, its type and a pointer to the location where the value is written. The entry point is parse_options(), which scans through the given argv, and matches each option there against the list of valid options. During the scan, argv is rewritten to only contain the non-option command line arguments and the number of these is returned. Aggregation of single switches is allowed: -rC0 is the same as -r -C 0 (supposing that -C wants an arg). Every long option automatically support the option with the same name, prefixed with 'no-' to unset the switch. It assumes that initial value for strings are "NULL" and for integers is "0". Long options are supported either with '=' or without: --some-option=foo is the same as --some-option foo Acked-by: Kristian Høgsberg <krh@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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+#ifndef PARSE_OPTIONS_H
+#define PARSE_OPTIONS_H
+
+enum parse_opt_type {
+ OPTION_END,
+ OPTION_BOOLEAN,
+ OPTION_STRING,
+ OPTION_INTEGER,
+};
+
+enum parse_opt_flags {
+ PARSE_OPT_KEEP_DASHDASH = 1,
+};
+
+struct option {
+ enum parse_opt_type type;
+ int short_name;
+ const char *long_name;
+ void *value;
+};
+
+#define OPT_END() { OPTION_END }
+#define OPT_BOOLEAN(s, l, v, h) { OPTION_BOOLEAN, (s), (l), (v) }
+#define OPT_INTEGER(s, l, v, h) { OPTION_INTEGER, (s), (l), (v) }
+#define OPT_STRING(s, l, v, a, h) { OPTION_STRING, (s), (l), (v) }
+
+/* parse_options() will filter out the processed options and leave the
+ * non-option argments in argv[].
+ * Returns the number of arguments left in argv[].
+ */
+extern int parse_options(int argc, const char **argv,
+ const struct option *options,
+ const char *usagestr, int flags);
+
+#endif