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NAME

       zargs - Class for Platform independent command line argument parsing helpers

SYNOPSIS

       //  This is a draft class, and may change without notice. It is disabled in
       //  stable builds by default. If you use this in applications, please ask
       //  for it to be pushed to stable state. Use --enable-drafts to enable.
       #ifdef CZMQ_BUILD_DRAFT_API
       //  *** Draft method, for development use, may change without warning ***
       //  Create a new zargs from command line arguments.
       CZMQ_EXPORT zargs_t *
           zargs_new (int argc, char **argv);

       //  *** Draft method, for development use, may change without warning ***
       //  Destroy zargs instance.
       CZMQ_EXPORT void
           zargs_destroy (zargs_t **self_p);

       //  *** Draft method, for development use, may change without warning ***
       //  Return program name (argv[0])
       CZMQ_EXPORT const char *
           zargs_progname (zargs_t *self);

       //  *** Draft method, for development use, may change without warning ***
       //  Return number of positional arguments
       CZMQ_EXPORT size_t
           zargs_arguments (zargs_t *self);

       //  *** Draft method, for development use, may change without warning ***
       //  Return first positional argument or NULL
       CZMQ_EXPORT const char *
           zargs_first (zargs_t *self);

       //  *** Draft method, for development use, may change without warning ***
       //  Return next positional argument or NULL
       CZMQ_EXPORT const char *
           zargs_next (zargs_t *self);

       //  *** Draft method, for development use, may change without warning ***
       //  Return first named parameter value, or NULL if there are no named
       //  parameters, or value for which zargs_param_empty (arg) returns true.
       CZMQ_EXPORT const char *
           zargs_param_first (zargs_t *self);

       //  *** Draft method, for development use, may change without warning ***
       //  Return next named parameter value, or NULL if there are no named
       //  parameters, or value for which zargs_param_empty (arg) returns true.
       CZMQ_EXPORT const char *
           zargs_param_next (zargs_t *self);

       //  *** Draft method, for development use, may change without warning ***
       //  Return current parameter name, or NULL if there are no named parameters.
       CZMQ_EXPORT const char *
           zargs_param_name (zargs_t *self);

       //  *** Draft method, for development use, may change without warning ***
       //  Return value of named parameter or NULL is it has no value (or was not specified)
       CZMQ_EXPORT const char *
           zargs_get (zargs_t *self, const char *name);

       //  *** Draft method, for development use, may change without warning ***
       //  Return value of one of parameter(s) or NULL is it has no value (or was not specified)
       CZMQ_EXPORT const char *
           zargs_getx (zargs_t *self, const char *name, ...);

       //  *** Draft method, for development use, may change without warning ***
       //  Returns true if named parameter was specified on command line
       CZMQ_EXPORT bool
           zargs_has (zargs_t *self, const char *name);

       //  *** Draft method, for development use, may change without warning ***
       //  Returns true if named parameter(s) was specified on command line
       CZMQ_EXPORT bool
           zargs_hasx (zargs_t *self, const char *name, ...);

       //  *** Draft method, for development use, may change without warning ***
       //  Print an instance of zargs.
       CZMQ_EXPORT void
           zargs_print (zargs_t *self);

       //  *** Draft method, for development use, may change without warning ***
       //  Self test of this class.
       CZMQ_EXPORT void
           zargs_test (bool verbose);

       #endif // CZMQ_BUILD_DRAFT_API
       Please add '@interface' section in './../src/zargs.c'.

DESCRIPTION

       zargs - Platform independent command line argument parsing helpers

       Platform independent command line argument parsing helpers

       There are two kind of elements provided by this class foo --named-parameter --parameter
       with_value positional arguments -a gain-parameter zargs keeps poision only for arguments,
       parameters are to be accessed like hash.

       It DOES: * provide easy to use CLASS compatible API for accessing argv * is platform
       independent * provide getopt_long style — argument, which delimits parameters from
       arguments * makes parameters positon independent

       It does NOT * change argv * provide a "declarative" way to define command line interface

       In future it SHALL * hide several formats of command line to one (-Idir, --include=dir,
       --include dir are the same from API pov)

       Please add @discuss section in ./../src/zargs.c.

EXAMPLE

       From zargs_test method.

           //  Simple create/destroy test

           char *argv1[] = {"progname", "--named1", "-n1", "val1", "positional1", "--with", "value", "--with2=value2", "-W3value3", "--", "--thisis", "considered", "positional", NULL};

           zargs_t *self = zargs_new (13, argv1);
           assert (self);

           assert (streq (zargs_progname (self), "progname"));
           assert (streq (zargs_first (self), "positional1"));
           assert (streq (zargs_next (self), "--thisis"));
           assert (streq (zargs_next (self), "considered"));
           assert (streq (zargs_next (self), "positional"));
           assert (!zargs_next (self));

           assert (zargs_has (self, "--named1"));
           assert (zargs_has (self, "-n1"));
           assert (!zargs_has (self, "--not at all"));

           assert (!(zargs_get (self, "--named1")));
           assert (streq (zargs_get (self, "-n1"), "val1"));

           // common usages - test for -h/--help
           bool has_help = zargs_hasx (self, "--help", "-h", NULL);
           assert (!has_help);

           zargs_destroy (&self);

AUTHORS

       The czmq manual was written by the authors in the AUTHORS file.

RESOURCES

       Main web site:

       Report bugs to the email <zeromq-dev@lists.zeromq.org[1]>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) the Contributors as noted in the AUTHORS file. This file is part of CZMQ,
       the high-level C binding for 0MQ: http://czmq.zeromq.org. This Source Code Form is subject
       to the terms of the Mozilla Public License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not
       distributed with this file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. LICENSE
       included with the czmq distribution.

NOTES

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