STC coption: Command line argument parsing
This describes the API of the coption_get() function for command line argument parsing.
See getopt_long for a similar posix function.
typedef enum {
coption_no_argument,
coption_required_argument,
coption_optional_argument
} coption_type;
typedef struct {
const char *name;
coption_type type;
int val;
} coption_long;
typedef struct {
int ind; /* equivalent to posix optind */
int opt; /* equivalent to posix optopt */
const char *optstr; /* points to the option string, if any */
const char *arg; /* equivalent to posix optarg */
...
} coption;
coption coption_init(void);
int coption_get(coption *opt, int argc, char *argv[],
const char *shortopts, const coption_long *longopts);
#include <stdio.h>
#include "stc/coption.h"
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
coption_long longopts[] = {
{"foo", coption_no_argument, 'f'},
{"bar", coption_required_argument, 'b'},
{"opt", coption_optional_argument, 'o'},
{0}
};
const char* shortopts = "xy:z::123";
if (argc == 1)
printf("Usage: program -x -y ARG -z [ARG] -1 -2 -3 --foo --bar ARG --opt [ARG] [ARGUMENTS]\n", argv[0]);
coption opt = coption_init();
int c;
while ((c = coption_get(&opt, argc, argv, shortopts, longopts)) != -1) {
switch (c) {
case '?': printf("error: unknown option: %s\n", opt.optstr); break;
case ':': printf("error: missing argument for %s\n", opt.optstr); break;
default: printf("option: %c [%s]\n", opt.opt, opt.arg ? opt.arg : ""); break;
}
}
printf("\nNon-option arguments:");
for (int i = opt.ind; i < argc; ++i)
printf(" %s", argv[i]);
putchar('\n');
}