#ifndef OPTPARSE_H #define OPTPARSE_H /** * Optparse -- portable, reentrant, embeddable, getopt-like option parser * * The POSIX getopt() option parser has three fatal flaws. These flaws * are solved by Optparse. * * 1) Parser state is stored entirely in global variables, some of * which are static and inaccessible. This means only one thread can * use getopt(). It also means it's not possible to recursively parse * nested sub-arguments while in the middle of argument parsing. * Optparse fixes this by storing all state on a local struct. * * 2) The POSIX standard provides no way to properly reset the parser. * This means for portable code that getopt() is only good for one * run, over one argv with one optstring. It also means subcommand * options cannot be processed with getopt(). Most implementations * provide a method to reset the parser, but it's not portable. * Optparse provides an optparse_arg() function for stepping over * subcommands and continuing parsing of options with another * optstring. The Optparse struct itself can be passed around to * subcommand handlers for additional subcommand option parsing. A * full reset can be achieved by with an additional optparse_init(). * * 3) Error messages are printed to stderr. This can be disabled with * opterr, but the messages themselves are still inaccessible. * Optparse solves this by writing an error message in its errmsg * field. The downside to Optparse is that this error message will * always be in English rather than the current locale. * * Optparse should be familiar with anyone accustomed to getopt(), and * it could be a nearly drop-in replacement. The optstring is the same * and the fields have the same names as the getopt() global variables * (optarg, optind, optopt). * * Optparse also supports GNU-style long options with optparse_long(). * The interface is slightly different and simpler than getopt_long(). * * By default, argv is permuted as it is parsed, moving non-option * arguments to the end. This can be disabled by setting the `permute` * field to 0 after initialization. */ struct optparse { char **argv; int permute; int optind; int optopt; char *optarg; char errmsg[64]; int subopt; }; enum optparse_argtype { OPTPARSE_NONE, OPTPARSE_REQUIRED, OPTPARSE_OPTIONAL }; struct optparse_long { const char *longname; int shortname; enum optparse_argtype argtype; }; /** * Initializes the parser state. */ void optparse_init(struct optparse *options, char **argv); /** * Read the next option in the argv array. * @param optstring a getopt()-formatted option string. * @return the next option character, -1 for done, or '?' for error * * Just like getopt(), a character followed by no colons means no * argument. One colon means the option has a required argument. Two * colons means the option takes an optional argument. */ int optparse(struct optparse *options, const char *optstring); /** * Handles GNU-style long options in addition to getopt() options. * This works a lot like GNU's getopt_long(). The last option in * longopts must be all zeros, marking the end of the array. The * longindex argument may be NULL. */ int optparse_long(struct optparse *options, const struct optparse_long *longopts, int *longindex); /** * Used for stepping over non-option arguments. * @return the next non-option argument, or NULL for no more arguments * * Argument parsing can continue with optparse() after using this * function. That would be used to parse the options for the * subcommand returned by optparse_arg(). This function allows you to * ignore the value of optind. */ char *optparse_arg(struct optparse *options); #endif