jos/inc/args.h
Anish Athalye c67463e23c Lab 5
2018-10-24 20:44:45 -04:00

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#ifndef JOS_INC_ARGS_H
#define JOS_INC_ARGS_H
struct Argstate;
// JOS command-line parsing functions.
// Initializes the Argstate buffer from argc and argv.
// (Note: it is safe to use a 'const char **' for argv.)
void argstart(int *argc, char **argv, struct Argstate *args);
// Returns the next flag in the argument list,
// or -1 if there are no more flags.
//
// Flags stop at a non-flag (anything that doesn't start with '-'),
// at the end of the argument list, before "-", or after "--",
// whichever comes first. Any "--" argument is not returned.
//
// Consumes arguments from the argc/argv array passed in to argstart.
// If you argstart with an argc/argv array of ["sh", "-i", "foo"],
// the first call to argnext will return 'i' and change the array to
// ["sh", "foo"]. Thus, when argnext returns -1, the argc/argv array
// contains just the non-flag arguments.
int argnext(struct Argstate *);
// Returns the next value for the current flag, or 0 if it has no value.
// For example, given an argument list ["-fval1", "val2", "val3"],
// a call to argnext() will return 'f', after which repeated calls to
// argnextvalue will return "val1", "val2", and "val3".
// Consumes arguments from the argc/argv array.
char *argnextvalue(struct Argstate *);
// Returns the current flag's value, or 0 if it has no value.
// Behaves like argnextvalue, except that repeated calls to argvalue will
// return the same value.
char *argvalue(struct Argstate *);
// Example:
//
// #include <inc/lib.h>
//
// void
// umain(int argc, char **argv)
// {
// int i;
// struct Argstate args;
//
// argstart(&argc, argv, &args);
// while ((i = argnext(&args)) >= 0)
// switch (i) {
// case 'r':
// case 'x':
// cprintf("'-%c' flag\n", i);
// break;
// case 'f':
// cprintf("'-f %s' flag\n", argvalue(&args));
// break;
// default:
// cprintf("unknown flag\n");
// }
//
// for (i = 1; i < argc; i++)
// cprintf("argument '%s'\n", argv[i]);
// }
//
// If this program is run with the arguments
// ["-rx", "-f", "foo", "--", "-r", "duh"]
// it will print out
// '-r' flag
// '-x' flag
// '-f foo' flag
// argument '-r'
// argument 'duh'
struct Argstate {
int *argc;
const char **argv;
const char *curarg;
const char *argvalue;
};
#endif