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NAME

       argtable2 - an ANSI C library for parsing GNU style command line options

SYNOPSIS

       #include <argtable2.h>

       struct arg_lit
       struct arg_int
       struct arg_dbl
       struct arg_str
       struct arg_rex
       struct arg_file
       struct arg_date
       struct arg_rem
       struct arg_end

       struct arg_lit* arg_lit0(const char *shortopts, const char *longopts, const char *glossary)
       struct arg_lit* arg_lit1(const char *shortopts, const char *longopts, const char *glossary)
       struct arg_lit* arg_litn(const char *shortopts, const char *longopts, int mincount, int maxcount, const char *glossary)

       struct arg_int* arg_int0(const char* shortopts, const char* longopts, const char* datatype, const char* glossary)
       struct arg_int* arg_int1(const char *shortopts, const char *longopts, const char* datatype, const char *glossary)
       struct arg_int* arg_intn(const char *shortopts, const char *longopts, const char* datatype, int mincount, int maxcount, const char *glossary)

       struct arg_dbl* arg_dbl0(const char *shortopts, const char *longopts, const char* datatype, const char *glossary)
       struct arg_dbl* arg_dbl1(const char *shortopts, const char *longopts, const char* datatype, const char *glossary)
       struct arg_dbl* arg_dbln(const char *shortopts, const char *longopts, const char* datatype, int mincount, int maxcount, const char *glossary)

       struct arg_str* arg_str0(const char *shortopts, const char *longopts, const char* datatype, const char *glossary)
       struct arg_str* arg_str1(const char *shortopts, const char *longopts, const char* datatype, const char *glossary)
       struct arg_str* arg_strn(const char *shortopts, const char *longopts, const char* datatype, int mincount, int maxcount, const char *glossary)

       struct arg_rex* arg_rex0(const char* shortopts, const char* longopts, const char* pattern, const char* datatype, int flags, const char* glossary)
       struct arg_rex* arg_rex1(const char* shortopts, const char* longopts, const char* pattern, const char* datatype, int flags, const char* glossary)
       struct arg_rex* arg_rexn(const char* shortopts, const char* longopts, const char* pattern, const char* datatype, int mincount, int maxcount, int flags, const char* glossary)

       struct arg_file* arg_file0(const char* shortopts, const char* longopts, const char* datatype, const char* glossary)
       struct arg_file* arg_file1(const char *shortopts, const char *longopts, const char* datatype, const char *glossary)
       struct arg_file* arg_filen(const char *shortopts, const char *longopts, const char* datatype, int mincount, int maxcount, const char *glossary)

       struct arg_date* arg_date0const char* shortopts, const char* longopts, const char* format, const char* datatype, const char *glossary)
       struct arg_date* arg_date1const char* shortopts, const char* longopts, const char* format, const char* datatype, const char *glossary)
       struct arg_date* arg_datenconst char* shortopts, const char* longopts, const char* format, const char* datatype, int mincount, int maxcount, const char *glossary)

       struct arg_rem* arg_rem(const char *datatype, const char *glossary)
       struct arg_end* arg_end(int maxerrors)

       int arg_nullcheck(void **argtable)
       int arg_parse(int argc, char **argv, void **argtable)
       void arg_print_option(FILE *fp, const char *shortopts, const char *longopts, const char *datatype, const char *suffix)
       void arg_print_syntax(FILE *fp, void **argtable, const char *suffix)
       void arg_print_syntaxv(FILE *fp, void **argtable, const char *suffix)
       void arg_print_glossary(FILE *fp, void **argtable, const char *format)
       void arg_print_glossary_gnu(FILE *fp, void **argtable)
       void arg_print_errors(FILE *fp, struct arg_end *end, const char *progname)
       void arg_freetable(void **argtable, size_t n)

DESCRIPTION

       Argtable  is an ANSI C library for parsing GNU style command line arguments with a minimum
       of fuss. It enables the programmer to define their program's argument syntax  directly  in
       the  source code as an array of structs. The command line is then parsed according to that
       specification and the resulting values stored directly into user-defined program variables
       where they are accessible to the main program.

       This  man  page is only for reference.  Introductory documentation and example source code
       is typically installed under /usr/share/doc/argtable2/ and  is  also  available  from  the
       argtable homepage at http://argtable.sourceforge.net.

   Constructing an arg_<xxx> data structure
       Each arg_<xxx> struct has it own unique set of constructor functions (defined above) which
       are typically of the form:

       struct arg_int* arg_int0("f", "foo", "<int>", "the foo factor")
       struct arg_int* arg_int1("f", "foo", "<int>", "the foo factor")
       struct arg_int* arg_intn("f", "foo", "<int>", 2, 4, "the foo factor")

       where arg_int0() and arg_int1() are merely abbreviated  forms  of  arg_intn().   They  are
       provided  for  convenience when defining command line options that have either zero-or-one
       occurrences (mincount=0,maxcount=1)  or  exactly  one  occurrence  (mincount=1,maxcount=1)
       respectively.

       The  shortopts="f"  parameter  defines  the  option's  short  form  tag (eg -f).  Multiple
       alternative tags may be defined by concatenating them (eg shortopts="abc" defines  options
       -a, -b and -c as equivalent).  Specify shortopts=NULL when no short option is required.

       The  longopts="foo"  parameter  defines  the  option's long form tag (eg --foo).  Multiple
       alternative long form tags may be separated by commas  (eg  longopts="size,limit"  defines
       --size  and  --limit).   Do  not  include  any whitespace in the longopts string.  Specify
       longopts=NULL when no long option is required.

       If both shortopts and longopts are NULL then the option is an untagged argument.

       The datatype="<int>" parameter is a descriptive string that denotes the argument data type
       in  error  messages,  as  in  --foo=<int>.  Specifying datatype=NULL indicates the default
       datatype should  be  used.   Specifying  datatype=""  effectively  disables  the  datatype
       display.

       The  mincount=2  and  maxcount=3  parameters  specify  the  minimum  and maximum number of
       occurrences of the option on the command line.  If the command line option does not appear
       the required number of times then the parser reports a syntax error.

       The  glossary="the foo factor" parameter is another descriptive string. It appears only in
       the glossary table that is generated  automatically  by  the  arg_print_glossary  function
       (described later).

              -f, --foo=<int>    the foo factor

       Specifying  a  NULL  glossary  string  causes  that option to be omitted from the glossary
       table.

   LITERAL COMMAND LINE OPTIONS
       -x, -y, -z, --help, --verbose

       struct arg_lit
          {
          struct arg_hdr hdr;  /* internal argtable header */
          int count;           /* number of matching command line options */
          };

       Literal options take no argument values. Upon a successful parse, count is  guaranteed  to
       be within the mincount and maxcount limits specified at construction.

   INTEGER COMMAND LINE OPTIONS
       -x2, -z 32MB, --size=734kb, --hex 0x7, --binary 0b10011010, --octal 0o123

       Argtable accepts command line integers in decimal (eg 123), hexadecimal (eg 0xFF12), octal
       (eg 0o123) and binary (eg 0b0101110) formats. It also accepts integers that  are  suffixed
       by  "KB"  (x1024),  "MB"  (x1048576)  or  "GB"  (x1073741824).  All  characters  are  case
       insensitive

       struct arg_int
          {
          struct arg_hdr hdr;  /* internal argtable header */
          int count;           /* number of values returned in ival[] */
          int *ival;           /* array of parsed integer values */
          };

       Upon a successful parse, count is guaranteed to be within the mincount and maxcount limits
       set  for  the  option at construction with the appropriate values store in the ival array.
       The parser will not accept any values beyond that limit.

       Hint: It is legal to set default values in the ival array prior to calling  the  arg_parse
       function.  Argtable  will  not  alter  ival  entries for which no command line argument is
       received.

       Hint: Untagged numeric arguments are not recommended because GNU getopt mistakes  negative
       values  (eg  -123)  for  tagged  options  (eg  -1  -2  -3).  Tagged arguments (eg -x -123,
       --tag=-123) do not suffer this problem.

   REAL/DOUBLE COMMAND LINE OPTIONS
       -x2.234, -y 7e-03, -z-3.3E+6, --pi=3.1415, --tolerance 1.0E-6

       struct arg_dbl
          {
          struct arg_hdr hdr;  /* internal argtable header */
          int count;           /* number of values returned in dval[] */
          double *dval;        /* array of parsed double values */
          };

       Same as arg_int except the parsed values are stored in dval as doubles.

   STRING COMMAND LINE OPTIONS
       -Dmacro, -t mytitle, -m "my message string", --title="hello world"

       struct arg_str
          {
          struct arg_hdr hdr;  /* internal argtable header */
          int count;           /* number of strings returned in sval[] */
          const char **sval;   /* array of pointers to parsed argument strings */
          };

       Same as arg_int except pointers to the parsed strings are returned in sval rather  than  a
       separate  copy  of  the  string.   Indeed,  these pointers actually reference the original
       string buffers stored in argv[], so their contents should not be altered.  However, it  is
       legal  to  initialise  the  string  pointers  in the sval array to reference user-supplied
       default strings prior to calling arg_parse.  Argtable will only alter the contents of sval
       when matching command line arguments are detected.

   REGULAR EXPRESSION COMMAND LINE OPTIONS
       commit, update, --command=commit, --command=update

       struct arg_rex
          {
          struct arg_hdr hdr;  /* internal argtable header */
          int count;           /* number of strings returned in sval[] */
          const char **sval;   /* array of pointers to parsed argument strings */
          };

       Similar  to  arg_str  except  the string argument values are only accepted if they match a
       predefined regular expression.  Regular expressions are useful for matching  command  line
       keywords,  particularly  if case insensitive strings or pattern matching is required.  The
       regular expression is defined by the pattern parameter passed to the  arg_rex  constructor
       and  evaluated using regex.  Its behaviour can be controlled via standard regex bit flags.
       These are passed to argtable via the flags parameter in the arg_rex  constructor.  However
       the  only  two  of  the standard regex flags are relevant to argtable, namely REG_EXTENDED
       (use extended regular expressions rather than basic ones)  and  REG_ICASE  (ignore  case).
       These  flags  may  be logically ORed if desired.  See regex(3) for more details of regular
       expression matching.

       Restrictions: Argtable does not support  arg_rex  functionality  under  Microsoft  Windows
       platforms  because  the  Microsoft  compilers  do  include  the necessary regex support as
       standard.

   FILENAME COMMAND LINE OPTIONS
       -o myfile, -Ihome/foo/bar, --input=~/doc/letter.txt, --name a.out

       struct arg_file
          {
          struct arg_hdr hdr;      /* internal argtable header */
          int count;               /* number of filename strings returned */
          const char **filename;   /* pointer to full filename string */
          const char **basename;   /* pointer to filename excluding leading path */
          const char **extension;  /* pointer to the filename extension */
          };

       Similar to arg_str but the argument strings are presumed to refer to filenames hence  some
       additional  parsing is done to separate out the filename's basename and extension (if they
       exist).  The three arrays filename[], basename[], extension[] each store  up  to  maxcount
       entries,  and  the i'th entry of each of these arrays refer to different components of the
       same string buffer.

       For example, -o /home/heitmann/mydir/foo.txt would be parsed as:
           filename[i]  = "/home/heitmann/mydir/foo.txt"
           basename[i]  =                      "foo.txt"
           extension[i] =                         ".txt"

       If the filename has no leading path then the basename is the same as the filename.  If  no
       extension  could be identified then it is given as NULL.  Extensions are considered as all
       text from the last dot in the filename.

       Hint: Argtable only ever treats the filenames as strings and never attempts to  open  them
       as files or perform any directory lookups on them.

   DATE/TIME COMMAND LINE OPTIONS
       12/31/04, -d 1982-11-28, --time 23:59

       struct arg_date
          {
          struct arg_hdr hdr;  /* internal argtable header */
          const char *format;  /* user-supplied date format string that was passed to constructor */
          int count;           /* number of datestamps returned in tmval[] */
          struct tm *tmval;    /* array of datestamps */
          };

       Accepts a timestamp string from the command line and converts it to struct tm format using
       the system strptime function. The time format is defined by the format  string  passed  to
       the  arg_date  constructor,  and  is passed directly to strptime. See strptime(3) for more
       details on the format string.

       Restrictions: Argtable does not support arg_date  functionality  under  Microsoft  Windows
       because the Microsoft compilers do include the necessary strptime support as standard.

   REMARK OPTIONS
       struct arg_rem
          {
          struct arg_hdr hdr;  /* internal argtable header */
          };

       The  arg_rem  struct  is  a dummy struct in the sense it does not represent a command line
       option to be parsed.  Instead it provides a  means  to  include  additional  datatype  and
       glossary   strings   in   the  output  of  the  arg_print_syntax,  arg_print_syntaxv,  and
       arg_print_glossary functions.  As such, arg_rem structs may be used in the argument  table
       to  insert additional lines of text into the glossary descriptions or to insert additional
       text fields into the syntax description.

   END-OF-TABLE OPTION
       struct arg_end
          {
          struct arg_hdr hdr;  /* internal argtable header */
          int count;           /* number of errors returned */
          int *error;          /* array of error codes */
          void **parent;       /* pointers to the erroneous command line options */
          const char **argval; /* pointers to the erroneous command line argument values */
          };

       Every argument table must have an arg_end structure as its last entry.
       It marks the end of an argument table and stores the error codes generated
       by the parser as it processed the argument table.
       The maxerrors parameter passed to the arg_end constructor
       specifies the maximum number of errors that the structure can store.
       Any further errors are discarded and replaced with the single error code
       ARG_ELIMIT which is later reported to the user by the message "too many errors".
       A maxerrors limit of 20 is quite reasonable.

       The arg_print_errors function will print the errors stored
       in the arg_end struct in the same order as they occurred,
       so there is no need to understand the internals of the arg_end struct.

FUNCTION REFERENCE

   int arg_nullcheck (void **argtable)
       Returns non-zero  if  the  argtable[]  array  contains  any  NULL  entries  up  until  the
       terminating arg_end* entry.  Returns zero otherwise.

   int arg_parse (int argc, char **argv, void **argtable)
       Parse  the  command  line  arguments  in argv[] using the command line syntax specified in
       argtable[], returning the number of errors encountered.  Error details are recorded in the
       argument  table's  arg_end  structure  from  where  they  can  be displayed later with the
       arg_print_errors function.  Upon a successful parse, the arg_xxx structures referenced  in
       argtable[] will contain the argument values extracted from the command line.

   void  arg_print_option  (FILE  *fp,  const  char  *shortopts, const char *longopts, const char
       *datatype, const char *suffix)
       This function prints an option's syntax, as in -K|--scalar=<int>, where the short options,
       long  options, and datatype are all given as parameters of this function.  It is primarily
       used within the arg_xxx structures' errorfn functions as a way of displaying  an  option's
       syntax  inside  of  error  messages. However, it can also be used in user code if desired.
       The suffix string is provided as a convenience for appending newlines and so forth to  the
       end of the display and can be given as NULL if not required.

   void arg_print_syntax (FILE *fp, void **argtable, const char *suffix)
       Prints  the  GNU  style  command  line syntax for the given argument table, as in: [-abcv]
       [--scalar=<n>] [-o myfile] <file> [<file>]
       The suffix string is provided as a convenience for appending newlines and so forth to  the
       end of the display and can be given as NULL if not required.

   void arg_print_syntaxv (FILE *fp, void **argtable, const char *suffix)
       Prints  the  verbose  form of the command line syntax for the given argument table, as in:
       [-a] [-b] [-c] [--scalar=<n>] [-o myfile] [-v|--verbose] <file> [<file>]
       The suffix string is provided as a convenience for appending newlines and so forth to  the
       end of the display and can be given as NULL if not required.

   void arg_print_glossary (FILE *fp, void **argtable, const char *format)
       Prints  a  glossary  table describing each option in the given argument table.  The format
       string is passed to printf to control the formatting of each entry in  the  the  glossary.
       It  must  have exactly two "%s" format parameters as in "%-25s %s\n", the first is for the
       option's syntax and the second for its glossary string.  If an option's glossary string is
       NULL then that option in omitted from the glossary display.

   void arg_print_glossary_gnu (FILE *fp, void **argtable)
       An  alternate  form  of  arg_print_glossary()  that  prints  the glossary using strict GNU
       formatting conventions wherein long options are vertically aligned in a second column, and
       lines are wrapped at 80 characters.

   void arg_print_errors (FILE *fp, struct arg_end *end, const char *progname)
       Prints the details of all errors stored in the end data structure.  The progname string is
       prepended to each error message.

   void arg_freetable (void ** argtable, size_t n)
       Deallocates the memory used by each arg_xxx struct referenced by argtable[].  It does this
       by calling free for each of the n pointers in the argtable array and then nulling them for
       safety.

FILES

       /usr/include/argtable2.h
       /usr/lib/libargtable2.a
       /usr/lib/libargtable2.so
       /usr/man3/argtable2.3
       /usr/share/doc/argtable2/
       /usr/share/doc/argtable2/example/

AUTHOR

       Stewart Heitmann <sheitmann@users.sourceforge.net>