1 /* Argp example #3 -- a program with options and arguments using argp */
3 /* This program uses the same features as example 2, and uses options and
6 We now use the first four fields in ARGP, so here's a description of them:
7 OPTIONS -- A pointer to a vector of struct argp_option (see below)
8 PARSER -- A function to parse a single option, called by argp
9 ARGS_DOC -- A string describing how the non-option arguments should look
10 DOC -- A descriptive string about this program; if it contains a
11 vertical tab character (\v), the part after it will be
12 printed *following* the options
14 The function PARSER takes the following arguments:
15 KEY -- An integer specifying which option this is (taken
16 from the KEY field in each struct argp_option), or
17 a special key specifying something else; the only
18 special keys we use here are ARGP_KEY_ARG, meaning
19 a non-option argument, and ARGP_KEY_END, meaning
20 that all arguments have been parsed
21 ARG -- For an option KEY, the string value of its
22 argument, or NULL if it has none
23 STATE-- A pointer to a struct argp_state, containing
24 various useful information about the parsing state; used here
25 are the INPUT field, which reflects the INPUT argument to
26 argp_parse, and the ARG_NUM field, which is the number of the
27 current non-option argument being parsed
28 It should return either 0, meaning success, ARGP_ERR_UNKNOWN, meaning the
29 given KEY wasn't recognized, or an errno value indicating some other
32 Note that in this example, main uses a structure to communicate with the
33 parse_opt function, a pointer to which it passes in the INPUT argument to
34 argp_parse. Of course, it's also possible to use global variables
35 instead, but this is somewhat more flexible.
37 The OPTIONS field contains a pointer to a vector of struct argp_option's;
38 that structure has the following fields (if you assign your option
39 structures using array initialization like this example, unspecified
40 fields will be defaulted to 0, and need not be specified):
41 NAME -- The name of this option's long option (may be zero)
42 KEY -- The KEY to pass to the PARSER function when parsing this option,
43 *and* the name of this option's short option, if it is a
44 printable ascii character
45 ARG -- The name of this option's argument, if any
46 FLAGS -- Flags describing this option; some of them are:
47 OPTION_ARG_OPTIONAL -- The argument to this option is optional
48 OPTION_ALIAS -- This option is an alias for the
50 OPTION_HIDDEN -- Don't show this option in --help output
51 DOC -- A documentation string for this option, shown in --help output
53 An options vector should be terminated by an option with all fields zero. */
57 const char *argp_program_version
=
59 const char *argp_program_bug_address
=
60 "<bug-gnu-utils@@gnu.org>";
62 /* Program documentation. */
64 "Argp example #3 -- a program with options and arguments using argp";
66 /* A description of the arguments we accept. */
67 static char args_doc
[] = "ARG1 ARG2";
69 /* The options we understand. */
70 static struct argp_option options
[] = {
71 {"verbose", 'v', 0, 0, "Produce verbose output" },
72 {"quiet", 'q', 0, 0, "Don't produce any output" },
73 {"silent", 's', 0, OPTION_ALIAS
},
74 {"output", 'o', "FILE", 0,
75 "Output to FILE instead of standard output" },
79 /* Used by @code{main} to communicate with @code{parse_opt}. */
82 char *args
[2]; /* @var{arg1} & @var{arg2} */
87 /* Parse a single option. */
89 parse_opt (int key
, char *arg
, struct argp_state
*state
)
91 /* Get the @var{input} argument from @code{argp_parse}, which we
92 know is a pointer to our arguments structure. */
93 struct arguments
*arguments
= state
->input
;
98 arguments
->silent
= 1;
101 arguments
->verbose
= 1;
104 arguments
->output_file
= arg
;
108 if (state
->arg_num
>= 2)
109 /* Too many arguments. */
112 arguments
->args
[state
->arg_num
] = arg
;
117 if (state
->arg_num
< 2)
118 /* Not enough arguments. */
123 return ARGP_ERR_UNKNOWN
;
128 /* Our argp parser. */
129 static struct argp argp
= { options
, parse_opt
, args_doc
, doc
};
131 int main (int argc
, char **argv
)
133 struct arguments arguments
;
135 /* Default values. */
136 arguments
.silent
= 0;
137 arguments
.verbose
= 0;
138 arguments
.output_file
= "-";
140 /* Parse our arguments; every option seen by @code{parse_opt} will
141 be reflected in @code{arguments}. */
142 argp_parse (&argp
, argc
, argv
, 0, 0, &arguments
);
144 printf ("ARG1 = %s\nARG2 = %s\nOUTPUT_FILE = %s\n"
145 "VERBOSE = %s\nSILENT = %s\n",
146 arguments
.args
[0], arguments
.args
[1],
147 arguments
.output_file
,
148 arguments
.verbose
? "yes" : "no",
149 arguments
.silent
? "yes" : "no");